Armenian Genocide is an undeniable fact
The First World War that started in 1914 gave the Young Turks' government of the Ottoman Empire the opportunity to perpetrate the plan to eliminate all Armenians.
After the war began, all 15-45-year old Armenian men were conscripted, disarmed and executed in groups of 50-100 men. Starting on April 24, 1915, by the decree of the Ottoman authorities, 800 Armenian intellectuals were arrested in Constantinople and were later sentenced to death. With the third stage of the genocide, the perpetrators started killing the helpless Armenians, particularly women, children and the elderly. The Armenians were forced to either convert, or die or be deported.
The Armenians living in Western Armenia and other sectors of the Ottoman Empire were deported to the deserts of the Mediterranean. The massacres continued until 1923. According to different statistics, the Great Genocide killed nearly 1.5 million Armenians and more than a million were deported to different countries. As a result, Western Armenia was deprived of the indigenous Armenians who had lived on this land for millennia, and the culture that they created is being eliminated to this day.
Several international organizations have recognized the Armenian Genocide, including the European Parliament, the Council of Europe and the UN War Crimes Committee. More than 30 countries have recognized the Armenian Genocide at different levels, and several European countries have set a penalty for the denial of the Armenian Genocide in their legislations.
Polish advocate Rafael Lemkin, who coined the term "genocide", laid the study on the Armenian massacres at the core of his studies. To describe the massacres of groups of people on racial and ethnic grounds, he proposed the term "genocide" as a brilliant example of that phenomenon, citing the massacres of the Armenians in the early 20th century.
The Armenian Genocide is an undeniable fact, but the official Ankara continues to deny it even after nearly 100 years.
