Turkish Armenians

 

Armenians lived in the Territory of Modern Territory from 0 AD until the Armenian Genocide was carried out by the Turks from 1915-1923 when 1.5 Million Armenian Men, Women and Children were murdered by the Turks.

They were killed on Death Marches,  shot in the back, left to die in the desert, etc.

Another 200,000 Armenian Women were forced to marry Turkish Men and convert from being Orthodox Christians to Muslims – those that didn’t were killed.

Today, the Armenians still left in Turkey (around 40,000 and all mostly in Istanbul have to hide their being Armenian and not mention the Armenian Genocide as it is illegal to call the Turkish Murder of Armenians a Genocide inside Turkey despite 34 Countries (including: Armenia, Canada, France, Germany, Russia and the United States) recognizing it as a Genocide.

The Catholic Church also considers it a Genocide.

My Great-Uncle’s Parents fled the Ottoman Empire due to the Anti-Armenian Attacks there.

He was born in the US in 1910, but both sets of his Grandparents, many Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, etc. were murdered by the Turks during the Armenian Genocide.

The few Survivors fled Turkey for Armenia.

They were forced to live under Soviet Occupation when the USSR took over Armenia from 1920-1991.

When my Great-Uncle and my Great-Aunt went to the Soviet Union in 1977 they tried to get Soviet Permission to go to Soviet Armenia, but they were denied access and were only allowed to go to Soviet Ukraine, Soviet Belarus and Soviet Russia.)

My Great-Uncle was allowed to call his Relatives in Armenia from Moscow through, but they had to speak in Russian which he didn’t know so had to speak through a Translator.

By the time Armenia became independent from the USSR in 1991 his Relatives had died and he never got to see them.