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Disappearance of Western Armenia after world war 1
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After the end of World War 1 and the defeat of
the Central Powers ((Germany and Ottoman)), the Ottoman empire and its
government disintegrated. The members of the ruling government and the
Committee of Union and Progress escaped from the country and were sentenced
to death in their absence. Mustafa Kemal Pasha (Ataturk) appeared and
established the Republic of Turkey, changing the capital from Constantinople
to Ankara. For a short while, he confessed the acts and crimes of the Young
Turks, holding them accountable for the Armenian Genocide, but very soon he
held the way of his forefathers. Between 1920-1923, he massacred or exiled
the Armenians, who, after the war was finished, had returned to their
homeland hopeful of starting a new life. So by this, Western Armenia
(Ottoman Armenia), a land which was counted as the Armenian homeland for
more than 3500 years, disappeared from geographical maps and today is
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Western Armenia And Modern Armenia according
to convention of Sevres |
Armenian politicians in Eastern Armenia which
fell under the rule of Communism and the USSR in 1920, were not allowed to
speak publicly of the Genocide and Western Armenia. The USSR even gave some
parts of Eastern Armenia (( The cities of Kars and Ardahan )) to Turkey.
Ararat mountain, which is the symbol of Armenia, is located in Turkey. Thus
Eastern Armenia, till the
year 1991, when |
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it again became independent, was unable to do
anything effective as regarding the recognition of the Armenian Genocide of
1915 by other nations.
Today the government of Turkey also destroys the churches, villages,
petroglyphs, and every thing which is a testament to the existence of
Armenians in those regions. Sometimes the history of these buildings and
churches goes back to over 1500 years ago. Turkey, because of being a member
of NATO and an ally of the United States, settled the military bases of NATO
in the east- Armenians' ancestral lands to confront the forces of the former
USSR.
Nowadays most of the countries have recognized and condemned the Armenian
Genocide in 1915. France and Italy are two of the last countries whose
parliaments have recognized the Armenian Genocide in Turkey.
Presently the Armenian delegates in the parliament of the Islamic Republic
of Iran are going to present a plan asking for recognition and condemnation
of the Armenian Genocide 1915 by the ruling government of Turkey as the
first genocide of 20th century.
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