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The Assyrian genocide is one of several genocides perpetrated on a minority group around the beginning of the first World War through to the 1920s. The Ottoman empire also targeted the Armenians and the Greeks of Anatolia (modern day Turkey).Some of these events were aided or organized by German leaders, who were allied with the Ottoman empire.
When was the Assyrian genocide? The Young Turks' Extermination Policies The period of 1913 until 1925 was a time of tremendous upheaval as the Ottoman Empire, the "Sick Man of Europe" finally started passing out of existence.
Who caused the Assyrian genocide? Germany and the Ottoman Empire in World War I The German and Ottoman Empires became allies at the beginning of World War I in part because the Ottoman Empire had no choice but to pick a side as the threat of a large scale war became apparent.
There are monuments in remembrance of the Assyrian genocide in France, Sweden, Armenia, Belgium, Greece, Australia, and the United States (in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Columbia, South Carolina). The monuments have not been without controversy, though, as the Turkish Australian community protested the Assyrian monument in Sydney, and it has been ...
The Assyrians were convinced by the Allied forces that there would be a post-war independent Assyrian state. Then, in the post-War conferences, the Allied forces walked back this promise. At the Treaty of Sevres in 1920, the Allied forces and Turkey negotiated the new Turkish borders, but the Assyrians were not permitted to participate.
A Controversial Genocide. The Assyrian genocide is a controversial genocide because while the International Association of Genocide Scholars recognizes what happened to the Assyrians at the hands of the Ottoman empire as a genocide, the government of Turkey--the successor government to the Ottoman empire--refuses to consider the events a genocide, or to take responsibility for them.
End of a Genocide. By mid-1918, the war was turning decidedly in favor of the Allied forces, and the British convinced the Ottoman leadership to relocate the Assyrians of Persia to a camp called Baquba in northern Iraq.
The Assyrian genocide represents a case of the Turkish government playing two minorities against one another in order to contain one and destroy the other. Kurdish tribes were actively encouraged, with promises of sovereignty, to assist official Turkish efforts to ethnically cleanse the Assyrian Christian minority.
From 1914 to 1920, a genocide wiped out much of the Assyrian population. Even today, Assyrians face persecution in Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Syria. Assyrian Culture.
The Kurdish genocide in Iraq by Saddam Hussein culminated in the brutal al-Anfal campaign of 1988. Ba’athist Iraq defended the al-Anfal campaign, claiming that it was a necessary ...