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The genocide of Armenians in Turkey (1915-1922)

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Suffice:
I'll sum it up a little bit: Modern Day Turkey is Historically Armenian land and up until the early 20's there were millions of Armenians residing in Turkey. Many people of high rank and economically well off people were Armenians. Then the situation in Turkey became bad, socially and economically when WWI broke out. Armenians got in the way of the Turks and they decided that they should get rid of the Armenians by driving them out of the country. In a matter of a couple of days after the decision was made by the Turkish Pasha all of the Armenian Elite were publically executed, their houses were burned, and their relatives tortured. The rest of the people were forced to leave their homes and march across the desert to Syria, Iran, and other surrounding countries. In the process of this genocide almost 2 million armenians died. To this day the Turkish government is denying the authenticity of the armenian genocide. They say that a few people were killed by accident, but that there was no systematic plan of extermination of the nation. During WWII during the extermination of many undesired races in the Third Reich Hitler had said "After all who remembers Armenians today." Some European countries have accepted the Armenian genocide, but the United States still hasn't accepted, although every president in the past 20 years had promised to accept the Armenian genocide prior to being elected. April 24th was agreed upon by all Armenians as a mourning day to the victims of the Armenian genocide and on this day Turkish embassies around the world close due to demonstrations and marches.

Trauma-san:
Hmmm... well how do I know it really happened? 

Suffice:
There is a lot of proof. For one, my great grandmother's whole family died in the desert and her brother and she were the only survivors from a family of 7 children, so go figure. There are also lots of photographs of the massacres and even some documentaries shot with early cameras. i'm sure if you're in doubt you can find lots of information online if you just search for it.

Sikotic™:
The only reason the US won't accept it is because they don't want to piss off Turkey and their relations with them. We're not Jewish so no one gives a fuck.

Suffice:
It really is sad that only 3-4 people have posted an opinion on this issue...

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