Armenian genocide

In 1890, the Ottoman Empire lived 2.5 million Armenians. Russian Empire and the Armenian community supports their efforts for autonomy since in this way Russia aims to weaken the Ottoman state. Due to the rapid growth of the movement for autonomy Sultan Abdul Hamid II take actions that hold power over the territories inhabited by Armenians.
In their attempts to rekindle a conflict Porte incites Kurdish population against their neighbors the Armenians. After the massacre of the Armenians, Kurds uprising, which was suppressed by regular Turkish army and Kurdish irregulars. During the suppression of the uprising in 1894 killed 50,000 Armenians are very keen villages. The degree of fault of the Turkish government in these events is not well understood and is the subject of controversy. Two years later, Armenian revolutionaries seized the building of the "Ottoman Bank" in Istanbul to attract international attention to the plight of his people in the Ottoman Empire.
Second pogrom of Armenians [edit]



Remains of murdered Armenians in Erzincan. Similar views can be seen throughout Armenia [2]


December Rafael Nogales Méndez (1879-1936), Venezuelan officer in the Turkish army wrote his testimony of the massacre in his book "Cuatro años bajo la media luna (four years under the crescent)

Russia and Turkey entered the First World War as enemies. Turkish officials say the Armenians in the country as a Russian "fifth column". In February 1915 all Armenian mobilized 60,000 soldiers are imprisoned in labor camps and then killed. Armenians located near the front, as well as others from the hinterland to start running negostolyubivite walk through desert lands of Syria and Mesopotamia.
According to other sources, they were forcibly deported to the caravan surrounded by the army and then are killed on the road and in the camps. [3] [4]
A large number of Armenians were killed and the survivors after the war can not return to their native homes. These Armenians migrated to Russia to Armenia or Western Europe, North America and Australia.
Disputes between Armenia and Turkey for the events surrounding the Armenian genocide has not yet been completed. Armenia claims that the events leading to the defeat of the Armenians were very well planned by the Turkish authorities and that entitles them to be classified as genocide. This statement of the Armenian state in 1985 and in 1986 was accepted by the international community in the UN a year later by the European Parliament. On the other hand, Turkey still maintains that the events of World War I were genocide, but that just some Turkish military has "gone a little far in his actions." In the second half of the 20th century, some Armenian organizations failed attempt by terrorist attacks to force Turkey to change its opinion on the Armenian genocide.
During the genocide, the international community is aware of these events, but no one except the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, do not respond. A more detailed summary of the issues the Armenian genocide are given by the American historian C. Dadaryan. [5]
In connection with the negotiations for Turkey to join the European Union, the issue of recognition of the Turkish side of the Armenian genocide is topical again the attention of European countries. The issue was also raised by the famous Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk, who in early 2005 spoke in a Turkish weekly newspaper that Turkey is responsible for the Armenian genocide, which killed more than one million people. This statement generate an avalanche of outrage and demands for lynching a writer in Turkey, storm the European Union and reactivating the pressure of Armenia and Armenian organizations worldwide recognition of the Genocide. Because of his statements Orhan Pamuk was tried for violating the Turkish national honor and prestige of the Turkish army. In late December, Cotton was cleared of charges against him and was released from custody on Jan. 22, 2006.
Recognition [edit]



Starving wife and child and during the Armenian Genocide
In 2004, Canada accepted and applied the first law that the denial of Armenian genocide a criminal offense. On 12 October 2006 the French Parliament adopted a law criminalizing denial of the Armenian genocide, according to which everyone denied it subject to imprisonment.
Group of U.S. lawyers are trying to find a fair solution made "Life" of the Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey in the period 1880-1930, the number of American and French insurance companies as a result of legal actions against them, or have already paid off in the process of payment of compensation to the holders of such insurance or their heirs. Such insurance, Turkey wanted to take them after the killing of Armenians, but it is received. Today they are returned to the rightful - legal heirs of Armenians killed. The recovery process of Armenian insurance made deposits and seized property was a successful move, despite enormous Turkish counter today.
In 2006 Ataka submitted for voting in 40 draft National Assembly for recognizing the Armenian genocide, but the proposal was rejected.
In 2008, after the Bulgarian parliament failed to adopt a declaration condemning the Armenian genocide, the municipal councils of several Bulgarian towns voted for the recognition and condemnation of genocide, among them Plovdiv, Burgas, Ruse, Stara Zagora, Pazardzhik, Shumen. Voting in Sofia is not allowed by the city's mayor Boyko Borisov on the scheduled date. These decisions of the local authorities in Bulgaria are a manifestation of national sovereignty and, yet encounter hostile acts by the Turkish government - de-twinning between Bulgarian and Turkish cities, boycotts of joint events and occasional vandalism actions incompatible with good t in politics and international relations. [6]
Marking [edit]

Every year the world Armenians in Armenia marked with torchlight processions and marches day genocide and urged Turkey to recognize it. An example of this is the 90th anniversary in 2005, when the capital Yerevan, hundreds of thousands of people gather at the memorial. At the same time there are protests in Los Angeles, where he lives large Armenian community.
Memorial in Yerevan [edit]


Obelisk and the 12 blocks
In 1965, the 50th anniversary of the genocide, is a monument designed by architect and Kalashyan Magardichiyan the hill "Tsitsernakaberd" above the Hrazdan River. Obelisk is a 44 meters high and symbolizes the rebirth of Armenians and 12 blocks placed in a circle, representing 12 Armenian depopulated areas in present-day eastern Turkey. Inside the circle burns an eternal flame. From Memorial Park begins with a wall 100 meters long on which are written the names of the fields that are known to have carried out massacres. At the end of the park in 1995 opened a small museum [7] with event information and photos of German photographers (Turkish allies during the First World War) and publications on genocide in different languages. Some museums have planted trees of various officials who have visited it.
Recognition of the Armenian Genocide [Edit]

Armenian Genocide officially recognized by the: European Parliament, Committee on Foreign Relations of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Foreign Relations of the U.S. Congress from the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Armenia, Belgium, Vatican, Venezuela, Greece, Italy , Canada, Cyprus, Lebanon, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Uruguay, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Chile, the regions: Australia - U.S. South Australia and New South Wales in Brazil - Sao Paulo and Ceara in UK - Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, Italy - many municipalities vote recognition of genocide in Spain - Basque Country and Catalonia in Canada - Ontario and Quebec in Ukraine - Crimea.
U.S. 42 of the 50 states have officially recognized the Armenian Genocide, including: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, North Carolina, South Carolina, Colorado, Connecticut, North Dakota, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico,
New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Utah , Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin.

In Turkey, the Nobel Prize for Literature Orhan Pamuk said in the press that: "No one dares to say it, but I say it - Turks killed 1 million Armenians and 30,000 Kurds." [8] and in 2008 . 200 Turkish intellectuals signed a petition to apologize for the ethnic cleansing of Armenians in World War I, signed briefly by another 29,000 people.

Some countries like Canada in 2004 and France in 2006, have adopted laws that criminalize denial as a crime of genocide against the Armenians. The law adopted by the French Parliament judicial punishment is one year in prison plus a fine of 45,000 euros.
In Switzerland, the Turkish historian Yusuf Halasoglu was convicted in 2004 for violation of this law in a lecture delivered in Winterthur.

In Bulgaria, municipal councils: Slatina, Burgas, Varna, Vidin, Dobrich, Lyaskovets, Pazardjik, Plovdiv, Ruse, Silistra, Stara Zagora, Shumen officially recognize the Armenian genocide carried out, Ataka submitted for a vote in the National Assembly a bill on official Bulgaria recognition of the genocide and the Holocaust of the Armenian people, but at the plenary failed to gather and support. The process of official recognition in this country began with declarations voted by the municipal councils in the cities of Plovdiv, Ruse, Burgas, Varna and Silistra are recognized as genocide the mass killings of Armenians, some of them did, even when the coalition cabinet and - despite sharp reactions MRF and Turkish consulate in the country.
In the social networking site Facebook has groups calling for recognition of the Armenian genocide. You can find them by searching for the following languages: Armenian, Bulgarian, English and more.