Remebering 92nd anniversary of Armenian Genocide by Ottoman Turkey.

April 24, 2007 -- 92nd Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide
Actively denied by Turkey to this day.

During World War I, the Young Turk political faction of the Ottoman Empire sought the creation of a new Turkish state, extending into Central Asia. Those promoting the ideology called "Pan Turkism" (creating a homogenous Turkish state) saw Turkey's Armenian population as an obstacle to the realization of that goal. During the Armenian Genocide (1915-1923), the Young Turk Government systematically forced 1.5 million Armenians out of their ancestral homeland in present-day Turkey and annihilated them.

April 24, 1915 marked the beginning of the Armenian Genocide in Constantinople (present day Istanbul) with the arrest, torture and execution of 300 Armenian intellectuals, writers, poets, political and civic leaders by the Young Turk Government of the Ottoman Empire. Also on that day, 5,000 of the poorest Armenians were butchered in the streets and in their homes.

In May 1915, after mass deportations had already begun, Turkish Minister of the Interior Talaat Pasha ordered the Armenian population's deportation into the Syrian desert. Adult and teenage males were separated from the deportation caravans and killed under the direction of Young Turk functionaries. Women and children were driven for months over mountains and desert, often raped, tortured, and mutilated. Deprived of food and water and often stripped of clothing, they fell by the hundreds and thousands along the routes to the desert. Ultimately, more than half the Armenian population, 1,500,000 people, was annihilated. In this manner the Armenian people were eliminated from their homeland of several millennia.

Sam Azadian, who lost four siblings during the Armenian Genocide, founded the first Times Square Commemoration in 1985. Azadian stated, "It is important to increase public awareness of the Armenian Genocide. Two out of three Armenians perished as a result of forced deportation and mass murder by the Ottoman Turks."

LGF reports that on April 22nd, a Turkish group of 'Armenian genocide Deniars' embarked on a highly organized and well-financed propaganda campaign in Times Square in Manhattan. The propaganda was professionally-staged demonstration, which featured a Pinocchio statue representing “Armenian lies.”

Turkey is inching its way into the EU Union, and people keep bringing up the murders and persecution of Armenians. This is the first wave of a highly-funded public relations campaign to
deny Turkey’s crimes.

Hopefully, Turkey will never get into EU without first apologizing for the Various Turkish atrocities they committed against the Armenians. The week of April 22nd through April 29th is proclaimed as “Days of Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide” in California. Documented as the first instance of genocide in the twentieth century, the Armenian Genocide remains unacknowledged to this day. It's time for all of us to recognize the Armenian Genocide and continue to urge all freedom-loving people in America and around the world to do the same.

Library of Congress Armenian genocide pictures.