German foreign ministry operative and Turkologist Ernst Jäckh claimed that 200,000 Armenians were killed and 50,000 were expelled and a million pillaged and plundered. [6][verification needed], News of the Armenian massacres in the empire were widely reported in Europe and the United States and drew strong responses from foreign governments, humanitarian organizations, and the press alike. Dans celui-ci je reviendrai sur les causes. Abdul Hamid believed that the woes of the Ottoman Empire stemmed from "the endless persecutions and hostilities of the Christian world. [18] Clashes ensued and unrest occurred in 1892 at Merzifon and in 1893 at Tokat. Le mouvement des Jeunes-Turcs, qui souhaitait créer une Turquie homogène racialement, est à l'origine du génocide.

Hunchak activists, such as Mihran Damadian, Hampartsoum Boyadjian, and Hrayr, encouraged resistance against double taxation and Ottoman persecution. Les Arméniens et la question arménienne, conférence faite par M. Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu,... le 6 juin 1896... Armenia's ordeal, a sketch of the main features of the history of Armenia and an inside account of the work of American missionaries among Armenians and its ruinous effect. Le génocide arménien désigne l'annihilation physique des chrétiens arméniens dans l'Empire ottoman entre le printemps 1915 et l'automne 1916. [21], The Great Powers (Britain, France, Russia) forced Hamid to sign a new reform package designed to curtail the powers of the Hamidiye in October 1895 which, like the Berlin treaty, was never implemented. "The Armenian Question in the Ottoman Empire," p. 224. [33] The attempt of deliberately misrepresenting the numbers were noted by British Ambassador Phillip Currie in a letter to Prime Minister Lord Salisbury: The Sultan lately sent to me, in common with my colleagues, an urgent message inviting the six Representatives to visit the military and municipal hospitals in order to see for themselves the number of Turkish soldiers and civilians who had been wounded during the recent disturbances. Quoted in Astourian, "On the Genealogy of the Armenian-Turkish Conflict," p. 195. [37] Further, historian Leslie Rogne Schumacher notes that the massacres "reflected and impacted the changing world of European international relations" in the years before the First World War, weakening Britain's relationship with the Ottoman Empire and bolstering British ties to Russia. [5] Although the massacres were aimed mainly at the Armenians, they turned into indiscriminate anti-Christian pogroms in some cases, such as the Diyarbekir massacre, where, at least according to one contemporary source, up to 25,000 Assyrians were also killed.[6].

Herzl acknowledged that the arrangement with the Abdul Hamid was temporary and his services were in exchange for bringing about a more favorable Ottoman attitude toward Zionism. Armenia, a martyr nation. "[42] King Leopold II of Belgium told British Prime Minister Salisbury that he was prepared to send his Congolese Force Publique to "invade and occupy" Armenia. 224–26. (1), Auteur du texte Schumacher, Leslie Rogne (2020), "Outrage and Imperialism, Confusion and Indifference: Schumacher, "Outrage and Imperialism, Confusion and Indifference," p. 326. [3], Therefore, third-party figures are deemed most reliable. 1915-2015. "Outrage and Imperialism, Confusion and Indifference: Punch and the Armenian Massacres of 1894-1896." Between 1894 and 1896 was when the majority of the murders took place. Le peuple arménien est comparé à « un microbe de la peste ».

The massacres began in the Ottoman interior in 1894, before becoming more widespread in the following years. In, This page was last edited on 27 September 2020, at 23:36. Thousands were killed at the hands of their Muslim neighbors and government soldiers, and many more died during the cold winter of 1895–96.
[7] This occurred at a time when the telegraph could spread news around the world, and the massacres received extensive coverage in the media of Western Europe and North America. "[42] The rest of the American press called for action to help the Armenians and to remove, "if not by political action than by resort to the knife... the fever spot of the Turkish Empire. The one fellow leader Herzl sought to enlist, Max Nordau, replied with a one-word telegram 'No'. In one chapter Hepworth describes the disparity between the reality of the Massacre in Bitlis and the official reports that were sent to the Porte. (69), France. [16] The Hamidiye and Kurdish brigands were given free rein to attack Armenians, confiscating stores of grain, foodstuffs, and driving off livestock, confident of escaping punishment as they were subjects of military courts only.