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Armenian Genocide By Committee Of Union And Progress In The Ottoman Empire

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April 24, 1915 is the day to recognize the 1.5 million Armenians who were murdered by the Committee of Union and Progress in the Ottoman Empire. The Armenian Genocide, also known as the Armenian Holocaust, or traditionally known by Armenians as Medz Yeghern, was planned and administered by the Turkish government against the entire Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire. It was carried during World War I, between the years of 1915 and 1918. Armenians were subjected to devastating acts of deportation, expropriation, abduction, massacre and starvation. The great bulk of the Armenian population was vigorously removed from Armenia and Anatolia to Syria, where the vast majority was sent into the desert to die of thirst and hunger. A vast amount …show more content…

This was also the Committee of Union and Progress, popularly acknowledged as the Young Turks. Three figures from the Committee of Union and Progress controlled the government; Mehmet Talaat, Minister of the Interior in 1915 and Grand Vizier, who was also the prime minister. In 1917, they were Ismail Enver, the Minister of War, Ahmed Jemal, the Minister of the Marine and Military Governor of Syria. This Young Turk threesome relied on other members of the Committee of Union and Progress who were appointed to high government posts, and assigned military commands to carry out the Armenian Genocide. In addition to the Ministry of War and the Ministry of the Interior, the Young Turks also relied on a newly-created undisclosed outfit, with which they manned with convicts and irregular troops, called the Special Organization. The primary function of it was to carry out of the mass slaughter of the deported Armenians. Behaeddin Shakir, a medical doctor, was in charge of the Special Organization.. The Young Turk conspirators, other leading figures of the wartime Ottoman government, members of the Committee of Union and Progress, and many provincial administrators responsible for atrocities against the Armenians were indicted for their crimes at the end of the war. The main culprits avoided justice by fleeing the country. They were also …show more content…

Its minority populations advanced with the growth of its’ economy. Although by the nineteenth century, the empire was in severe recession. It had been reduced in size, and by 1914, it had lost virtually all of its lands in both Europe and Africa. This recession created excessive internal political and economic pressures, which further contributed to the aggregation of ethnic tensions. Armenian aspirations for representation and participation in government aroused suspicions among the Muslim Turks, who had never shared power in their country with any minority and who also saw nationalist movements in the Balkans result in the secession of former Ottoman territories. Demands by Armenian political organizations for administrative reforms in the Armenian-inhabited provinces and better police protection from predatory tribes among the Kurds, only allowed further

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