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Armenian Genocide Jennifer Meyer, Ed. S. Rutherford County Schools. Powerpoint Templates. History. The Ottoman Empire ruled the area that is now Turkey and more. It is located in Europe and Asia. Minorities living in the empire were treated poorly. Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.

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  1. Armenian Genocide Jennifer Meyer, Ed. S. Rutherford County Schools Powerpoint Templates

  2. History • The Ottoman Empire ruled the area that is now Turkey and more. • It is located in Europe and Asia. • Minorities living in the empire were treated poorly.

  3. Armenians in the Ottoman Empire • In 1908, a group called the Young Turks took over control of the government. • They were ultra-nationalistic. • They wanted to make a pure Turkish nation. • They were not successful militarily.

  4. Armenians in the Ottoman Empire • Armenians were treated poorly by the Young Turks. • In April 1915, the Ottoman authorities arrested 250 Armenian people. • They forced them to walk hundreds of miles without rest or food or water. • Most of them died. • This is recognized as the date of the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.

  5. Genocide • Genocide means: destruction of an ethnic group. • It is the purposeful attempt to destroy all members of a group. An article by the New York Times dated 15 December 1915 states that one million Armenians had been either deported or executed by the Ottoman government.

  6. Armenian Genocide • The Ottoman destruction of the Armenians is one of the first modern genocides. • The word genocide was newly added to the English language to describe these events. Interior Minister Talaat Pasha, who ordered the arrests.

  7. Genocide? • The modern country of Turkey denies that a genocide occurred. • It has troubled relations with Armenia and complicated the conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

  8. Emotions

  9. http://www.armenian-genocide.org/genocide.html http://en.loadtr.com/The_Ottoman_Empire_1580-404618.htm http://jbrown43.blogspot.com/2010/09/being-young-turk-despite-not-being-that.html http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/credit-cards-around-the-world-turkey-1276.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recognition_of_the_Armenian_Genocide http://www.genocide-museum.am/eng/online_exhibition_3.php Sources/ResourcesRetrieved February 12, 2012

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