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 Why did this genocide happen?

The Armenians and the Turks were friends and living together for more than eight hundred years in the Ottoman empire. After World War One, times changed and the Turks began to get jealous of the Armenians. This was for many reasons, a couple because the Armenians were under the Ottoman Empire which made them better educated and were much wealthier. The Turks became enraged because they thought that the Armenians betrayed them because they were neighbors. The Turks started to hold a grudge against the Armenians and as the years went on the grudge got worse and worse.

Nationalism, a new force in the world, made ethnic groupings self conscious, and the Ottoman empire began to fall. This became known as the "sick man of Europe" and the only thing holding it together was the European's powers' lack of agreement on how to split up. The Armenians became isolated as the only major christian minority. Armenians and Turks began to have conflicting visions of the future. The government began to treat the Armenians worse and worse. The Turks eventually snapped and started what is called a genocide.([jen- //uh // -sahyd] noun: the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.. ) Massacres and fighting broke out for the search of independence. Many lives were lost in this appalling genocide. The faithful and innocent lives of the Armenians lost altogether totaled around 1,500,000 deaths.



Work Cited: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_did_the_Armenian_genocide_happen http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/Genocide/armenian_genocide.htm http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Armenian_Genocide http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/08_04/047armenians_468x325.jpg

Created By BM and CS, added info.& edited by NT

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