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Talaat Pasha, the powerful Ottoman interior minister during World War I, certainly didn’t disguise his objective. “The Government . . . has decided to destroy completely all the indicated [Armenians] persons living in Turkey,” he brusquely reminded officials in Aleppo in a September 1915 dispatch. “An end must be put to their existence . . . and no regard must be paid to either age or sex, or to conscientious scruples.”

Talaat Pasha, the powerful Ottoman interior minister during World War I, certainly didn’t disguise his objective. “The Government . . . has decided to destroy completely all the indicated [Armenians] persons living in Turkey,” he brusquely reminded officials in Aleppo in a September 1915 dispatch. “An end must be put to their existence . . . and no regard must be paid to either age or sex, or to conscientious scruples.”

US Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, flooded with accounts of the torture, death marches, and butchery being inflicted on the Armenians, remonstrated with Talaat to no avail. “It is no use for you to argue,” Morgenthau was told. “We have already disposed of three quarters of the Armenians. . . . The hatred between the Turks and Armenians is now so intense that we have got to finish them. If we don’t, they will plan their revenge. . . . We will not have the Armenians anywhere in Anatolia.”</blockquote></ref> <i>Turkish and Kurdish mobs attacking Armenian caravans with shouts and cries of "Allah" and "jihad".</i><ref>The Armenian Genocide: Cultural and Ethical Legacies. United States: Transaction Publishers, 2011. [https://books.google.com/books?id=K3monyE4CVQC&pg=PA298 298].<blockquote>...one should turn to survivor accounts and memoirs that describe the Turkish and Kurdish mobs attacking Armenian caravans with shouts and cries of "Allah" and "jihad"...</blockquote></ref> [[Turkey]] (which in 1923 became the successor state to the Ottoman Empire) has denied its responsibility, suggesting that preplanned [[genocide]] did not occur. Turkey says it was a confusing period where many people were killed because of political uprisings. To this day, Turkey denies it and did not even release their records.

US Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, flooded with accounts of the torture, death marches, and butchery being inflicted on the Armenians, remonstrated with Talaat to no avail. “It is no use for you to argue,” Morgenthau was told. “We have already disposed of three quarters of the Armenians. . . . The hatred between the Turks and Armenians is now so intense that we have got to finish them. If we don’t, they will plan their revenge. . . . We will not have the Armenians anywhere in Anatolia.”</blockquote></ref> <i>Turkish and Kurdish mobs attacking Armenian caravans with shouts and cries of "Allah" and "jihad".</i><ref>The Armenian Genocide: Cultural and Ethical Legacies. United States: Transaction Publishers, 2011. [https://books.google.com/books?id=K3monyE4CVQC&pg=PA298 298].<blockquote>...one should turn to survivor accounts and memoirs that describe the Turkish and Kurdish mobs attacking Armenian caravans with shouts and cries of "Allah" and "jihad"...</blockquote></ref> Impeccably researched account<ref>Zeʾevi, Dror., Morris, Benny. [https://books.google.com/books?id=THSPDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924]. United Kingdom: Harvard University Press, 2019.</ref> shows that the <i>Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924</i>, was<blockquote> actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia’s Christian population and create a pure Muslim nation.</blockquote>

 

[[Turkey]] (which in 1923 became the successor state to the Ottoman Empire) has denied its responsibility, suggesting that preplanned [[genocide]] did not occur. Turkey says it was a confusing period where many people were killed because of political uprisings. To this day, Turkey denies it and did not even release their records.

The Armenian Genocide of 1914–1923 was not the only Armenian Genocide – an earlier one began in 1019.<ref>Ibrahim, Raymond (May 10, 2019). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/remembering-the-forgotten-armenian-genocide-of-1019-ad Remembering the forgotten Armenian Genocide of 1019 AD]. ''LifeSiteNews'' (from the ''American Thinker''). Retrieved May 11, 2019.</ref>

The Armenian Genocide of 1914–1923 was not the only Armenian Genocide – an earlier one began in 1019.<ref>Ibrahim, Raymond (May 10, 2019). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/remembering-the-forgotten-armenian-genocide-of-1019-ad Remembering the forgotten Armenian Genocide of 1019 AD]. ''LifeSiteNews'' (from the ''American Thinker''). Retrieved May 11, 2019.</ref>