It is almost impossible for any one to disbelieve the Armenian Genocide. 90% of the world accepts this to be true. In the United States 40 states recognize the Genocide, Yet Turkey continues to deny the fact. I noticed that this year the Knesset voted overwhelmingly to deny the Genocide Of all nations to deny this, yet they want the world to accept the Holocost. They say Turkey is an alli of the U.S.A. that is not true. They are an alli of the Bush government, who attacked a nation who did nothing to harm America or any of it's citizens, and of some senators and congressmen who have accepted the Turk MONEY to deny the Genocide. We also have a black secretary of state who not knowing the facts has also denied the genocide. I wonder how much Turk MONEY she has put away. According to what this new President elect Obama says, when he becomes President of the U.S.A. he will have the congress and the Senate vote to accept the Genocide as true. I truly hope I live to see the day Turkey admits this. I do not have any hostility towards the Turks of today, only the ultra nationalist who keep denying the truth. I believe in GOD and one day this will all come out. One more thing, the EU should not let Turkey become part of it until they do admit to the Genocide

what u all wrote in this history is all liar about Sultan Abdul Hamid II. I never believe to person name Kamal Attatork as your x-turk leader at all. Please burn all your history or erase from your children mind, tell about the truth of Baginda Sultan Abdul Hamid II..Allahuakbar!! I'm so sorry about that.

Selâm-Parev, i so bored this stupidly ideas and attacks.Armenians and Turks are sons of one civizilation:ANATOLIA Çem hasgınargor your ideas :) Armenian Problems lived in 1890s-1922s.But Van, Muş, Kars are Turkish lands today.And muss be such."Western Armenia" is so stupidly a dream. And our history wasnt ssart in 1915.We have got soul of thousand years."genocide" is not scientific term.this is your ideas and you are drop by bitch Westerns-Christians. Mnak parov, şad şnorhagal em :):):) LONG LIVE TURKISH-ARMENIAN BROTHERHOOD !!! I BELIEVE THAT.

i'm greek and my dads girlriend is armenian and i've always loved the armenians. i never really understood the genocide but recently i've seen pictures and asked people and they have really opened my eyes, such a beautiful country yet so much sadness. If you ask someone if they'ce ever heard of armenia they're like "what?!?!?", its a shame such a lovely country isn't known lik spain or england or russia, and the armenian genocide MUST be recognised, ESPECIALLY by the turks!!!! such a beautiful country yet so much sadness... xx

Dear Ronin, In the case of mentioning the name of 'Tajik' tribe among turanian tribes, you're right and that was just a mistake by us, if you check the map of turanian tribes placed in our website in the following link (click here), you would see that the name of 'Tajik' tribe is outside turanian border and this should prove you that the mentioning tajiks was just a mistake, but this doesn't give you the right to say 'the facts mentioned in this site are wrong'. There is nothing wrong in the given information and they have been proved and are undeniable. If you should have been bothered yourself to read whole the history part of the site, you could find the answer of your all questions. Some points of your message show that you are small-minded person.
First of all, you don't need to hate Turks or others to have an objective opinion, Even we, Armenians do not hate turks or others, we just want the truth be accepted and justice took place.
2. Armenians had been never lived in peace under government of Ottoman Empire. Disasters of Armenians in Ottoman Empire aren't limited to 1915. Massacres of Armenians in the city of Adana had taken place in 1909. Before that in 1894-1896 the massacres of Sultan Abdul-Hamid took place. Armenians had been suffered during 30 years of his domination. In this website has been spoken a lot about travails of Armenians before the genocide during all the ruling times of ottomans. Thus, your theory is not true that Armenians had being lived in peace in Ottoman empire and suddenly one day, Turks woke up and started to massacre Armenians.
3. The other point of your massage, which convinced us you are small-minded man, is that Armenian burnt mosques, women and children etc. In Ottoman empire, A real junk. It sounds like that indians killed Americans, Irishes killed englishes, Algerians killed frenches, etc. Can you imagine that small and weak Armenian nation could do things like that in the powerful empire!? Armenians even fear to touch the turks and generally the muslims! I have to inform you that Armenians were in their own country, in a land where they had been lived for thousands of years. They did not live in Turkish lands. Ottoman Turks were immigrants into the Anatolia, Turks conquered the Constantinople in 1453 and just in 16 century they conquered the western Armenia (see the map).
4. You said that Armenians got killed most cause they rebelled and betrayed most. This is also junk. Even if we accept that some Armenian groups cooperated with Russians, this did not give the right to Turks to exterminate a whole nation including women and children. When WW1 was started, Armenian youths served in Turkish army and besides Turks had been fought against Russian and English armies in different frontlines. Armenians were exemplary citizens and had been done their duties in Empire. 2/3 of the whole Armenians and almost whole the Armenian population of Turkey were destroyed. Armenians lost more than 5/6 of their ancestral lands.
5. You want to know why Turks destroyed the whole Armenian nation! If you bothered yourself to read carefully, you could get the answer. Many reasons, but we can enumerate some in brief: Since begining of 19th century, there was a case called “Armenian Question” and during almost half of a century Europeans used the case in different opportunities to make pressure on Turkey and got some dividends. Turks wanted to solve the Armenian case once forever. The other reason was performing the Pan-Turkism ideology. Armenians were obstacle between Ottoman Turks and their other brothers. An other reason was that Ottomans had been lost many parts of empire such as Bulgaria, the European and Mediterranean regions of Empire, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Lebanon, Kuwait, Macedonia, Albania, Egypt and Tunisia. But when would the time of the separation of Armenia and eastern Anatolia come!? This question, before occurring to the Armenian minds, had occurred to the minds of courtiers and made them fear and seek remedy.

Nice site. I wish you post more high resolution photos. But many facts are wrong or given out of context. On "Appearance of Ottoman Turks" page you state Tajiks as Turanian tribe. Tajik is part of Indo-European family, NOT Turkish family. Tajiks are descendants of Persians and were original inhabitants of Central Asia till Altaic tribes (mongols, turks, tartars) slowly started migrating from Ural and modern Mongolia to Central Asia in mid of 11 century. They migrated to modern Turkey through Central Asia but they were not original inhabitants and Tajiks are not related to them at all. Turks did kill Armenians but they thought that Armenians deserved it cause they betrayed their own government during WW1 by organizing guerrilla forces against their own country. Armenian burnt mosques, women and children also. How would you feel when someone did the same to you in your own country? Of course, there is no excuse for Turks but Ottoman Empire was multi-cultural, multi-religion Empire and Turks killed many nations beside Armenians. But Armenians got killed most cause they rebelled and betrayed most. You don't give any kind of explanation why Turks lived in peace Armenians for centuries in Ottoman Empire suddenly started killing them in mass numbers. Something should have trigger it, right? I am not Turk, i even don't like Turks at all but you need to get your facts straight.

A beautiful site-my grandfathers came from Urfa (one in 1895, 1 in 1915)-both taught me that not all Turks were evil but that some evil people were Turks-and that every nationality and religion has horrible people as well as good people. For Turkey to be a great nation, it must acknowledge its past, apologize for a terrible part of its history (and not just to Armenians but to Assyrians and others), and then move forward. Hate cures nothing but to paraphrase, the truth shall set us all free.

May the LORD G-D Bless the truths you are sharing with the world. I will definitely be sharing your site to those who are not informed. Niko

I would like to correct, historical, your statement that the armenian genocide was the first in the 20th century---the first was against the african people "HEREROS" in then German South-West Africa (today NAMIBIA) by Germany between 1904 - 1907.

Armenian problem is an artificial subject and maintained by diaspora Armenians in an inciting way. Armenians have never accepted the offers of Turkey concerning the searches of historical affairs. This automatically means that Armenian claims are out of reality and just serve to the interests of diaspora. Finally these nonsenses will never harm Türkiye, however will always leave Armenia a "lonely" country.

Very well done site and interesting comments. I am researching my family history and was fortunate to travel to Turkey last year. I would appreciate contact from anyone who might have info on the Borzakian name.

Dear OurArarat, Very good site. I can send you images of Armenian genocide books for you, including bibliography of Armenian Genocide publication writen by myself, please response God Bless you hamo vassilian

First We are Human. I think all forget these: Armenian genocide Jewish genocide & to be contin... shame on humanity when i listen about these, i think the animals are avant. don't forget these names Mostafa Kamal (ata turk) Hitler & now islamian leaders. The terrible crimes by turks must be punished. I think the Christian awakening time will come SOON.

Tox vor chmoranank mer zoherin kani mez hay en asum

Armenians are the most important minority in Iran every year we had parade in 24 of April but still there are too many people which dont khnow abut this in Iran and other countrys, we must try to give more information to them im not against the Turkish people as i khnow some of them live with each other peaceful .all this is politic. we just want the goverment have some respect for peopel. peace for but this people and all the world.

To “erhan”: Thank you for signing our guestbook and turkish views are also welcomed here. But I have to mention some points: First of all Turks in 1071 has no empire in Anatoia and were not powerful. They occupied Constantinapole in 1453 AD. And at that time Turks ruled just in small area around that city (As you can see in this map, which is published by Oxford university). The most powerful and most biggest time of ottoman empire was about 1550s. From that years ottoman Turks started to rule in all over the Anatolia. Thus, before that time they couldn’t massacre people, who were not under their control. Secondly, in spite of during whole the time, when Turks have been ruling on Armenians, Armenians lived in Anatoia, in their ancestral lands, as slaves of Turks. But since the middle times of 19-th century, when Turks started to lose their lands in Africa and the western part of Ottoman empire, such as European parts of empire, Bulgaria, Balkan, Romenia and Hungari, Libia and Algeria and…., then they started to think and fear that may be Ottoman Armenia and armenians would be independent too. So they gradually started massacre of Armenians and settle Armenian lands by Kurds and Turks. The first big massacre of Armenians brutally was organized by Sultan Abdul Hamid in 1894-1896 (more than 300,000 Armenians were killed), then in 1909 by Young Turks in Adana (30,000 Armenians were killed) and during World War One, in 1915-1923 , one and half milion armenians were massacred and the the others, about 500,000 Armenians deported from Ottoman Armenia and Anatolia forever. Thirdly, Armenians were killed not only in eastern part of Turkey, but in all over the Ottoman empire, In Istanbul, Izmit, Angora, Adana,…And at last, Today Turks have the same problem with Kurds. Turks were so fashist that they called Kurds as “ mountainous Turks”…

turkish people are murderer fashist terorist savage and wild people...i dont know whay USA nad ISRAEL and NATO help big terorist(turkiye)where is demokrati????? fashist turkish have kiled 2milion armani and kurdish...it is a holokoast and teragedy....i hope kurdish nad armenian people help each other......viva a KURDISTAN and ARMANISTAN

In fact what happened on April 24,1915 was a Genocide and no one has a tiny right to debate or deny that turning them into massacre, desposition or into other words. Ask the Armenians survived after all what was it. As for Sumgayit ,Baku , it was a slaughter... a painful evidence of most live Armenians who could escape or leave the place in time. Yet the Turks build monuments as if commemorating something called Turkish Genocide( by Armenians) .. Latest news said that the stones are flowing down from and the monuments are being ruined by themselves, as they are stones built for fake events... Patience and Wisdom to our Wise People, You armenians, God is witness, you will see the Justice. Mount Ararat is an Armeenian Mountain, no one has a right to share it with the Armenians. My Deepest Honour to the Victims of Genocide, and Gratitude to the Owner of this webiste,

an all armenians Vahe Hovanesyan hear me, we dont need Hillary, Obama,.... We need a powerful Millitary and Putin. We need System of a Down. special forces to win all battelfields. Thats all. Mik yerazek. Mik el trvrazrek.

It's very interesting to read Turks say; "Genocide didn't happen". I just read a comment (I don't remember who it was) and it said something like this "Turks never lived in the Area where Armenians were killed, It was kurds who killed them" It's a very easy thing to put the blame on somebody else. I agree that kurds had their own fault, but it was just because there were so scared of Turks to stand on Armenian side. The statement that the Turks didn't live in the places were Armenians were killed is just a rubbish. Armenians were killed all over the Turkey including Sasun, Van, Azizia, Adana, Zeytun If the person who wrote that comment ment the desert of Der el Zor than they are right about that, It wasn't a Turkish teretory and it Isn't But the killing action was done by Turkish. There were the ones who had the plan with Armabs to drive armenian nation to Der el Zor and kill them there, Because it would be much harder to do it in Turkey. WHY? Because if Armenians would know what was going to happen to them they would never stay still and let Turkish kill them. They would fight, but Turkish lied that they are rescuing Armenians from the World War. I agree that there is some of Armenian fault to. We Armenians are tempt to belive and trust everybody and that's the same story with Turkish. I just want to tell ALL THE ARMENIANS WHO WILL EVER READ THIS. GENOCIDE HAPPENED AND IT'S A FACT. IT'S A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THE WHOLE WORLD RECOGNIZES IT. WE SHOULD NEVER GIVE UP!!!!! DON'T LET THIS TURKS TO PUT YOU DOWN. BE INFORMED. READ AND PROVE THEM WHO ARE ARMENIANS. HOW STRONG THE ARMENIAN NATION COULD BE.

There's no irony in this it's simply the truth and yes truth hurts but until the turkish government accepts their wrong doing and comes out of denial we will fight and will make sure this never happens again!! There are lots of proof in form of documents, pictures, and even video documents that the turks used the opportunity through the world war to clear out the Armenian race (genocide). It's unfortunate that the new generation of turks has not been thought the truth about their history, not only with the Armenian, but with other nationalities such as the Greeks, French,.... the list is long. It's a known fact that turkey cannot be trusted in anyform or matter.

If you look at our history we turks had never performed genocide. we started invading Anatolia at 1071 completed 12th century. İf we had been massacrers, we could have done it 700 years ago when we had the most powerful empire on earth. I accept, bad things happened before and during ww1. Strange thing is, Turks do not live in the area Armenians were forced to walk. it is Kurds who massacred them. Irony is, Armenians and Kurds are united against Turks now.

Shame shame to killer and those support them still.

Hillary Clinton said that if she became president, she would recognize the Armenian Genocide.

Hillary Clinton said that if she became president, she would recognize the Armenian Genocide.

As APRIL 24 is approaching again and we will again make the world hear us. I will continue walking the path with my kids and hope for the "NEW" turks will open their minds and eyes and realize what their history holds is nothing but dark, wrong doings and inhumane acts. Nothing will ever bring down our voices nor will we stop from fighting for our rights and belongings. The term "what goes around comes around" applies well to the turks and they will get the boomerang reaction if not today will tomorrow. For all those turks who wrote on this page w/full of anger and bull %&#, you and I know that your anger stems from the fact that you are aware of your wrong doing and do not want to admit to the ARMENIAN GENOCIDE, but it's ok because there will come a day that your government will admit and my kids will live more peacefully. Until then, Long live Armenia, and eshe%&* milet turk milet.

We, Armenians, will never forget the Armenian Genocide in Turkey in 1915 and the Armenian Genocide in Azerbaijani cities, Sumgait, Baku, Kirovabad in 1988 by Azeri turks.

It is very true that both Turks and Armenians were killed in the events that took place early in the 20th century. However, what makes slaughtering of Armenians something we call Genocide is the fact that this manslaughter was orchestrated by the Turkish government. There are many honest people in the world who regardless of their nationality or religion recognize this Genocide - and there are Turks among them. I am very much against nourishing Genocide. However, it must be remembered and acknowledged in order for the whole world to move forward and to never repeat anything like that again. Sadly, it is not about people's attitude - it is all political and political only. The Turkish influential politicians are now playing the Jewish card in their attempt to influence the American politicians' decision on recognition of Genocide. They made it all very clear: unless the leaders of Israel and the leaders of international Jewish communities influence the U.S., the life of Jewish people in Turkey will be far from pleasant. So, what we see now is a kind of a love/hate triangle with Turkey, Israel and the U.S. being equally involved around the Genocide issue. You all should know the saying: "Guns don't kill people - people do". I would allow myself to re-phrase it by saying that people don't kill people - politicians do. We all know many examples of Turkish and Armenian families living as peaceful neighbors, we also know many examples of Turkish families saving Armenians from being slaughtered. Deepest respect from the bottom of our hearts to these people. Sadly, we also know some well-educated chauvinist, who shamelessly forgot about professional ethics of medical doctors and raising their voice against recognition of Genocide: http://www.petitiononline.com/ag022108/petition.html I wish all of you here prosperity and happiness - regardless of your nationality and religion.

Honesty is the best policy.

My experience of Turks, 99.9% of the time is negative. The males think all women are whores and their women ARE whores :) Most Turks are cold blooded greedy butchers. Truth has come out eventually... Armenians WILL get their country back. Keep the faith brothers and sisters... scum shall dissolve and disappear by the grace of God.

Dear Mr. Borak BOzali, Can you even understand wat you are saying? GEnocide didn't happen. Armenians killed Turkish too. That's a big, fat lie. Well in some cases I agree with this, But I really don't think that genocide never happened. You are trying to deny the fact that You Turkish people killed millions of people without paying back for that. I agree, That we Armenians tried to defend ourselves, but that was such a small defence compared with your bloody armies. If you have ever opened the history books, or read how the war happens, As you declared everybody that genocide was a war, You probably know that war is when one side declares about it to the other side, or there are reasonable reasons for starting a war,so both sides know it is going to happen. In this case not a single Armeninan knew what was going to happen, because your Young Turk Party gave only good heaven's promises. "Armenians and Turkish are friends. We will live together like brothers. There will be no war!!!!" And now you say that Armenians killed you too. Can you even try to imagine what you are saying. Which smart person in his right mind would not defend him/herself when others are trying to kill his/her family. Yes, I agree that in some places armenians stood up against your murderers,(Sasun, Zeytun) But that was just because you were a little late in this places and they tried to get ready for your(Turkish) attack in their lands. So after all this can you still think that Poor Turkish got killed By those "blood thirsty Armenians." Or it was a war. With full respect Sona

why in turkey's armenians dont think as same as your ideas.why this happen take action these years..can u think that..it is a big propogand.i concern them i dont say it is a lie like turkish government.in these times ottoman empire is not strong for some forces so everybody do this situations the others.turkish did it but armenians not.is it a clever mind?i am a turkish youth and i believe ottoman empire did that.but Armenians knows that it is a war and everything like genocide true for these years empires.armenians did it as same as ottomans.and i live an ancient street who armenians live there in 1910's.roads and evry house seems armenian architecture.some web sites concern armenians to not to go turkey.this is a big lie.we live in turkey in a friendhip life.FOR ALL ARMENIANS;if they dont stop the genocide situation propogand you should know that turkish government not open the borders to armenia so azerbaijan and one day georgia..so it is not healthy for armenia's future.u shouldnt see it.and absolutely it is not good for middle east.

Such is the end of people who backstab and attack nearby villages, i am very much pleased by the way armenians were dealt with, all empires have had an infestation problem in history, the ottomans just did a great display of how murderers and those who side with imperalists are dealt with, swell are the pictures of old on this website, of traitors decorating scaffolds, a great empire surely the ottomans were. i salute you all...