In his book, They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide, historian Ronald Grigor Suny examines the politics of the Ottoman Empire and the positions held by some of the Empire's peoples, as well as the involvement of the great powers that lead up and contributed to the Armenian genocide. He persuasively demonstrates through systematic examination of multiple aspects, that the incidence of the Armenian genocide, carried out largely by the young Turks, and simplistically based on a fundamental discrimination and hatred of Armenians, was a significant cause of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire that eventually led to an ethno-national Turkish Republic. (Suny, 20, 347) The author's intent in this book was to produce a realistic contribution of why, when and how the Armenians, Kurds, Turks and Assyrians were a part of an Empire that ultimately collapsed and eventually deported and murdered hundreds of thousands of its own citizens. The author argues that there were several contributing, complex factors that lead to the genocide of the Armenians. …show more content…
Massacre at Adana outraged the Armenians and frustration with the failure of the government to fulfill promises came to a boiling point. Muslims became envious of any success Armenians enjoyed and the Young Turks fought against the former race they deemed "inferior dogs," the entire way. Finally, all of the factors described come to a climax, to hundreds of thousands have already been killed. Blatant deportation and removal or the Armenians takes place in 1915 as the government and the Turks and Kurds see the former as a subversive, toxic addition to the Empire. Armenains, totaling between 600,000 and 1,000,000 were deported, murdered or died from starvation, or harsh weather