To oppose Armenian orthodoxy on this issue has become risky. Constitution protect those who choose to challenge the Armenian view.

Fundamental freedoms enshrined in the U.S. RELEVANCE: The truth demands that every side of a story be told. Though this portrayal is necessarily one-sided and steeped in bias, the Armenian community presents it as a complete history and unassailable fact. Armenian bent on this prosecution choose their evidence carefully, omitting all evidence that tends to exonerate those whom they presume guilty, ignoring important events and verifiable accounts, and sometimes relying on dubious or prejudiced sources and even falsified documents. Infusing history with myth, Armenian Americans vilify the Republic of Turkey, Turkish Americans, and ethnic Turks worldwide. The heroes are always Christian and the villains are always Muslim. In so doing, they describe a world populated only by white-hatted heroes and black-hatted villains. Yet Armenian have attempted to extricate and isolate their history from the complex circumstances in which their ancestors were embroiled. For during these waning days of the Ottoman Empire did millions die, Muslim, Jew, and Christian alike. In this context - an imperiled empire waging and losing battles on remote and disparate fronts, grasping to continue a reign of over seven years - must the tragic experience of the Ottoman Armenians of Eastern Anatolia be understood. The empire contracted against an onslaught of external invaders and internal nationalist independence movements. The Ottoman Empire participated in no fewer than a dozen named wars, nearly all to the detriment of the empire and its citizens.

Lands once Ottoman dominions today comprise more than 30 independent nations.Ī century of ever-increasing conflict, beginning roughly in 1820 and culminating with the founding of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, characterized the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire.

The Ottoman Empire ruled over all of Anatolia and significant parts of Europe, North Africa, the Caucasus and Middle East for over seven hundred years. THE ISSUE: Whether within the events leading to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire genocide was perpetrated against Armenian Ottoman citizens in Eastern Anatolia.

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