The Turkish Ottoman Empire Really Did Perpetrate Genocide Against Armenians

 Turkish official teasing starving Armenian children with food in 1915. 

 

Yes....the Turks deliberately perpetrated genocide against the Armenia people.  Armenians were Christians, well educated, successful and resented for it by the Turks.  "The genocide was carried out during and after World War I and implemented in two phases: the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and subjection of army conscripts to forced labour, followed by the deportation of women, children, the elderly and infirm on death marches leading to the Syrian desert. Driven forward by military escorts, the deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to periodic robbery, rape, and massacre."  "Turks created a “Special Organization,” which in turn organized “killing squads” or “butcher battalions” to carry out, as one officer put it, “the liquidation of the Christian elements.” 

"Records show that during this “Turkification”campaign government squads also kidnapped children, converted them to Islam and gave them to Turkish families. In some places, they raped women and forced them to join Turkish “harems” or serve as slaves. Muslim families moved into the homes of deported Armenians and seized their property".  In 1922, when the genocide was over, there were just 388,000 Armenians remaining in the Ottoman Empire."

"Despite pressure from Armenians and social justice advocates throughout the world, it is still illegal in Turkey to talk about what happened to Armenians during this era."

Read More...Much More....@ Wikipedia and especially @ History