Disappearance of Western Armenia after world war 1
 

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 counted a part of Turkey. 

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

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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