Armenian Genocide Analysis
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RISE OF TURK PARTY The Armenian Genocide was the deadliest genocide, resulting in approximately 1.5 million Armenian lives lost. The Young Turks were the perpetrators that orchestrated the removal of Armenians. This group was formed because of the Sultan Abdul-Hamid and his power (Adalian 2017). Due to the lack of progression and change in the Ottoman Empire, a group of military officers took it upon themselves to try and make a change to this empire that had become stale (Adalian 2017). With careful planning and waiting, The Young Turkish successfully overturn Sultan Abdul-Hamid and his power (Adalian 2017). This overturn was successful due to the public support they received, but most importantly they …show more content…
The act alone of exterminating the Armenians was an attempt at keeping the Turkish country pure. The Turkish wanted Islam to be the only religion and not Christianity, as Armenians practiced. The need and desire to create uniformity and social equilibrium is referred to as the functionalist perspective (Collins 1994). The Armenians did not want to stray away from their own values and culture that the Turks realized that they were going to be a problem with the uniformity they were trying to create. In order to abolish them they used genocide as a way to keep them from rebelling and keep power from the Young Turk. This conflict theory perspective, demonstrates how the Armenians had to fit into the standards even if that meant leaving their traditions and religious beliefs aside (Collins 1994). They did not have the opportunity to flee or try to reform themselves in order to try and save themselves. They were also grouped in parts of eastern Turkey making it simpler for the Turkish to execute their plan (Dadrian 2003). Furthermore, the actually mass killing of the Armenian population was a way of the Turkish to have an ultranationalist state in which their beliefs and core values were the ones that must be followed by anyone under their ruling (Dadrian 2003). This serves as an example of the symbolic interaction perspective, in which, humans function best in a practical and interactive way in accordance to their surroundings (Collins 1994). This demonstrates how the Young Turks were determined to create an improved environment and would justify their killings on these ideological concepts. They used violence and terror as a way to simplify the transition of power that they were trying to
RISE OF TURK PARTY The Armenian Genocide was the deadliest genocide, resulting in approximately 1.5 million Armenian lives lost. The Young Turks were the perpetrators that orchestrated the removal of Armenians. This group was formed because of the Sultan Abdul-Hamid and his power (Adalian 2017). Due to the lack of progression and change in the Ottoman Empire, a group of military officers took it upon themselves to try and make a change to this empire that had become stale (Adalian 2017). With careful planning and waiting, The Young Turkish successfully overturn Sultan Abdul-Hamid and his power (Adalian 2017). This overturn was successful due to the public support they received, but most importantly they …show more content…
The act alone of exterminating the Armenians was an attempt at keeping the Turkish country pure. The Turkish wanted Islam to be the only religion and not Christianity, as Armenians practiced. The need and desire to create uniformity and social equilibrium is referred to as the functionalist perspective (Collins 1994). The Armenians did not want to stray away from their own values and culture that the Turks realized that they were going to be a problem with the uniformity they were trying to create. In order to abolish them they used genocide as a way to keep them from rebelling and keep power from the Young Turk. This conflict theory perspective, demonstrates how the Armenians had to fit into the standards even if that meant leaving their traditions and religious beliefs aside (Collins 1994). They did not have the opportunity to flee or try to reform themselves in order to try and save themselves. They were also grouped in parts of eastern Turkey making it simpler for the Turkish to execute their plan (Dadrian 2003). Furthermore, the actually mass killing of the Armenian population was a way of the Turkish to have an ultranationalist state in which their beliefs and core values were the ones that must be followed by anyone under their ruling (Dadrian 2003). This serves as an example of the symbolic interaction perspective, in which, humans function best in a practical and interactive way in accordance to their surroundings (Collins 1994). This demonstrates how the Young Turks were determined to create an improved environment and would justify their killings on these ideological concepts. They used violence and terror as a way to simplify the transition of power that they were trying to