Recognizing the Armenian Genocide Turkey has been facing many allegations on the Armenian genocide, but the state never failed to maintain its narrative and discourse on it regardless of the increasing international pressure that she had been facing. A genocide is the organized killing of a people for the express purpose of putting an end to their collective existence (Armenian National Institute), and according to the united nations genocide convention, a genocide is an act committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. That definition described what happened to Armenians back in the twentieth century, but there are still other countries and regimes that refuse the recognition of the Armenian genocide even though it’s the second most researched case of genocide. The Armenian Genocide is often mentioned in the international arena and it’s almost universally acknowledged as genocide, especially that in March 2010, the U.S. Congressional panel votes that it is…show more content… The Ottoman rulers permitted the Armenians to have a self-government system, but that did not mean that they got fair and just treatment, Armenians were regarded as infidels and unfit and that led to many difficulties and complications, people were suspicious about them, the regime thought that since they are Christians they will be more biased towards Christian governments e.g. Russia, who shared borders with the Ottoman Empire and fought against it in the WWI. Eventually the suspicious grew intensely and affected Sultan Abdel Hamid the second, and told a reporter back in 1890 that he will put an end to the Armenian question, and will make them relinquish their revolutionary ambitions (History
