Armenian 'genocide'? Precedence, denial

Wiki: The Armenian genocide was not a "genocide," according not only to Turkey but to the American government. The Armenian [atrocity] was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress, it was implemented primarily through the mass murder of about one million Armenians during death marches to the Syrian Desert and the forced Islamization of others, primarily women and children.

The Armenian Genocide, its precedence, and denial

(The Cynical Historian) April 24, 2024: The ethnic cleansing, possibly a genocide, of Armenians by Turks in the Ottoman Empire took place between 1915-1918, but it had a long history leading up to it.

After decades of ethnic warfare, Young Turks (ordered by the three pashas of the CUP party) systematically murdered between 2-3 million Christians of Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek descent during World War I. [Of course, numbers vary. Often it is said the number of Armenians killed numbered between 1 and 1.5 million.] Turkey then instituted an official denial of this event, which continues to this day. [They do not seem to be denying that people were killed but rather that it was a genocide.] Such ignorance will not be tolerated.

• Minute 0:45: Most Armenians were Oriental Orthodox Christians, not Eastern Orthodox. (Thanks, @victorhoang6633).

Bibliography

• Raymond Kevorkian, The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History (New York: IB Tauris, 2011)

See original review: • The Promise (2017) | Based on a True...

Subscribe: youtube.com/subscription... Support the channel through Patreon (cynicalhistorian) or by purchasing merch (cynical-historian-shop.fourth...) Connect: Twitch: cynicalhistorian, Facebook: cynicalcypher88, Discord: discord, Twitter: cynical_history, Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/cynicalhisto... Threads: threads.net/@cynicalhisto...

• Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly