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About The Genocide
In 1877 one of the regular Russian-Turkish wars started, as a result of which the Treaty of San-Stefano was signed. According to that Treaty the Vilayet (Province) of Kars populated by Armenians was to be ceded to Russia, and Turkey was to undertake economic reforms in its areas populated by Armenians. This was a great option for Armenians. However, the West European Countries, troubled by the success of Russia, initiated another negotiation between the conflicting parties, this time in Berlin. There the implementation of reforms in Armenia was exclusively assigned to Turkey only. Instead the Armenian cause ("Haykakan Harts" ...
Why Mets Yeghern Qualifies as Genocide
According to the IV and VI articles of the Convention the persons that are guilty of committing genocide shall be tried either in the territory of the State where the act has been committed or by an international penal tribunal. ...
Recognition of the Armenian Genocide
The Genocide of Armenians has been condemned by the international community at various levels: starting from individual intellectuals to entire nations and countries. As of today the Mets Yeghern (the synonym of Armenian Genocide in Armenian) has been recognized and condemned by 18 countries of the 200 in the world (plus EU). Those countries are: * ...
Killings of the Genocide Criminals
In Why it was a genocide chapter it has already been mentioned that in 1919 the Turkish Pashas that have carried out the Armenian Genocide have been tried and sentenced to death in absentina by the Military Tribunal of Constantinople. However, that sentence, for whatever reasons was not enforced and the criminals were left unpunished. ...
About Tsitsernakaberd
The end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries were fatal times for Armenians. Ottoman Empire at the Government level planned and carried out massacres of Armenians. It reached its culmination in 1915-1916, in a slaughter started on 24th of April, 1915, 1.5 million civilian Armenians were killed.… For more information about this see About The Genocide article. ...
ADANA MASSACRES 1909
The Adana Massacre was the second series of large-scale massacres of Armenians to break out in the Ottoman Empire. The atrocities committed in the province of Adana in April 1909 coincided with the counter-revolution staged by supporters of Sultan Abdul Hamid (Abdul-Hamid) II (1876-1909) who had been forced to restore the Ottoman Constitution as a result of the 1908 Young Turk Revolution led by the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP). A prosperous region on the Mediterranean coast encompassing the old principality of Cilicia, once an independent Armenian state between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries, the province of Adana had been spared the 1890s ...
Armenian Genocide as an international crime
This article is an attempt to provide answers to some international legal issues conceringn the Armenian Genocide. In particular, was Armenian Genocide a crime under international law, Turkey’s responsibility for commited crime and the apportunity to appeal to the International Court of Justice. ...