Cause of Armenian Genocide

The cause of the Armenian genocide beings with a thriving Armenian community in the Middle East bored. The Armenian had lived there for three thousand years and had created a very prosperous homeland. Even thought many different people types throughout the years like Greeks, and Persians had ruled the homeland, but still the Armenian pride and culture was never wavered.
It was not until the eleventh century when the Turkish invaded the Armenian homeland, that there was a problem. By the sixteenth century, Armenia had been absorbed into the vast Ottoman Empire, which by the 1800 began to decline in power. The Turks that were once invincible were now no match to the modern European armies. As the empire continued to decline many ethnic groups like the Greeks and Serbs were given their independence under the Turkish Ottoman. It was only the Armenian who were denied their right to independence.
Note: In the map, the dark red spots of the areas of the mass murders, while the white spots are the concentration camps
As the Turkish Empire began to reform in 1890, young Armenians pressed for political reform. The Sultan of the Turk’s response was with brutal massacres. Soon after these massacres the young Turks took power over the ottoman and deemed their own ambitions for the future of Turkey. They wished to expand turkey and create a “great eternal land” called Turan, but the historic land of Armenia lay in their path, thus the solution was to wipe out the Armenian’s.
The Turks had to wait till a prime moment to begin the killing, so when the rest of the world was focused on world war 1, the whipping out of the Armenia’s began. First of all the Armenia’s were un-included from society, all rights were taken away including the right to bare arms, a method of defense.
On April 23 1915 coded telegrams were sent out to round up Armenia and exterminate. This process including taking Armenia’s from their homes, torturing, hanging,
shooting, death marches into the dessert were lack of food and extreme heat were kill 75 percent, and the rest were pushed over cliffs or cut up. Basically the only Armenia’s left living were attractive younger females, destined for a life of forced sexual service, basically rape.