Armenian Genocide
| Autor: | Suny, Ronald Grigor |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| DOI: | 10.15463/ie1418.10646 |
| Popis: | In early 1915 the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire decided to deport hundreds of thousands of Armenians and Assyrians from their homes into distant parts of the Empire, eventually into the deserts of Syria. Armenian soldiers in the Ottoman Army were demobilized and massacred; women and children were driven on long marches, starved, beaten, and often murdered. These events have been called the first major genocide of the twentieth century, but the government of the Turkish state and many of its supporters deny that a genocide took place; rather, they claim that the government acted to suppress an Armenian insurrection and people were killed in the process. New scholarship confirms that the Ottoman government intended the elimination of Armenians and Assyrians to render them impotent in the contest for lands in eastern Anatolia. 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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