The Armenian Genocide

April 24 is the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Armenian Genocide. In many countries of the world, memorials and monuments have been erected, in which dozens and hundreds of thousands of people gather who mourn for the dead. A huge number of countries recognize that during the genocide 1.5 million Armenians who lived in Turkey were exterminated.

The massacres of Armenians began as early as 1894-1896, but they reached a large scale on April 24, 1915. On this day in Constantinople, numerous arrests of the Armenian intellectual, religious, economic and political elite began, which led to the complete destruction of a whole pleiad of prominent figures of Armenian culture. In the lists of persons subject to arrest, people of different political views and professions have fallen: writers, artists, musicians, teachers, doctors, lawyers, journalists, businessmen, political and religious leaders, the only thing that has in common is their nationality and position in society. Arrests of prominent figures of the Armenian community continued in the Turkish capital with short breaks until the end of May, with no charges being brought against the detainees. The blow inflicted on the Armenian people by the Young Turk regime in the spring and summer of 1915 was unprecedented in its destructiveness. That is why Armenians, scattered around the world today, celebrate April 24th as a day of commemoration of the victims of the genocide.

In different sources, you can find many different reasons for this tragedy. Someone believes that the good relations of the Armenian people with Russia influenced this event, someone suggests that this is a secret treaty on August 2, 1914 with Turkey, Turkey, one of whose points was the change in the eastern borders of the Ottoman Empire to create a corridor leading to Muslim peoples of Russia, which implied the eradication of the Armenian presence in the changed territories. But the main reason for the genocide is, firstly, discrimination based on religion, and secondly, the unwillingness to divide its territory with Armenians, as well as the fear of an uprising of the Armenian people, through which Armenians could return the territories that actually belonged to them .

At the moment, the Armenian Genocide was recognized by Uruguay, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Lebanon, Lithuania, Greece, Slovakia, Cyprus, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile, Canada, Vatican, 42 US states and the District of Columbia. In addition, the Council of Europe, the European Parliament, the UN Sub-Commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, the UN Commission on War Crimes have recognized the Armenian Genocide .

Turkey still does not recognize this fact, it is not surprising, because if the genocide is recognized, the Turkish authorities will have to pay huge compensation to the relatives of the deceased, and possibly return the selected Armenian lands.

98 years have passed since the day of these horrific, trembling inhuman events, but the Armenian people continue to mourn for those people who were brutally tortured and killed at that time. And we can only believe that the whole world recognizes the genocide in memory of the destroyed people and will prevent in the future something even close to what has happened. It would also be very correct on the part of Turkey to recognize this fact, because there is a huge amount of evidence confirming that the Ottoman Empire was exterminated by about 1.5 million Armenians who lived in the territories of the empire.