Armenian Genocide

Today (April 24^th) is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.

(Map of the Armenian Genocide in Turkey.)

The Turks murdered 1.5 Million Armenian Men, Women and Children from 1915 to 1922 (in 1914 there were 2.5 Million Armenians living in Turkey (then the Ottoman Empire.)

The Turks murdered them by drowning people in rivers, throwing them off cliffs, crucifying them, on Death Marches, by burning them alive in Concentration and Annihilation Centers.

The Turks also kidnapped 100,000 Armenian Children forcing them to convert to Islam and giving them to Turkish Families.

The Turks also forced 100,000 Armenian Women to convert to Islam and marry Turkish Men or be killed.

The homes and property of the Armenians were given to Turks.

The Armenian Genocide erased Armenian Culture and Life that had been in Turkey for 2,000 years.

The Turks consider the Genocide necessary and justified to establish a Turkish Nation-State.

It continues to be illegal, in Turkey, to call the murder of the 1.5 Million Armenians in Turkey a Genocide (as it does in Pakistan and Azerbaijan.)

The Verdict of the Istanbul Trials, held by the Ottoman Government in 1919–1920, acknowledged the massacre of Armenians as "War Crimes", and sentenced the Perpetrators to death, but the 1921 resurgence of the Turkish National Movement gave the Murderers Amnesty and made calling the Massacres of the Armenians a Genocide a crime.

Countries and Organizations around the World officially call the murder of the Armenians by the Turks a Genocide:

The Catholic Church (in 2015), The International Association of Genocide Scholars (in 1997), The European Parliament (in 2015), The Council of Europe (in 2001), The  Union for Reform Judaism (in 1989), The Central Council of Jews in Germany (2015), The Mercosur Parliament, the Latin American Parliament.

Argentina (in 1993), Armenia (in 1988), Austria (in 2015), Belgium (in 1998), Bolivia (in 2014), Brazil (in 2015), Bulgaria (in 2015), Canada (in 1996), Chile (in 2007), Cyprus (1975), the Czech Republic (in 2017), France (in 1998). Germany (in 2005), Greece (in 1996), Italy (in 2000), Latvia (in 2021), Libya (in 2019), Lithuania (in 2005), Lebanon (in 1997), Luxembourg (in 2015), Mexico (in 2023), The Netherlands (in 2004), Paraguay (in 2015), Poland (in 2005), Portugal (in 2019), Russia (in 1995), Slovakia (in 2004), Sweden (in 2010), Switzerland (in 2003), Syria (in 2015), The United States (in 2021), Uruguay (in 1965), the Vatican (in 2000) and Venezuela (in 2005.)

Parts of these Countries Recognize the Armenian Genocide:

Australia (New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania), Belgium (Flanders), Brazil (Ceara, Parana, Rio de Janeiro, and Sao Paulo), Canada (Alberta, British Colombia, Ontario and Quebec), France (Corsica), Iran (Tehran), The Philippines (Manila), Spain (Aragon, Balearic Islands, Basque Country, Catalonia, Navarre, La Rioja), The United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi) , The United Kingdom (Scotland and Wales), All 50 US States and DC.