Nadene Goldfoot
Ukraine and Armenia share Russia as a neighbor. Look what happened to Armenia. Jews had lived on their land since the First Temple days at the time of the Temple destruction in 586 BCE. Later, one of King Herod of Jerusalem's grandsons, Aristobulus, was made king of Little Armenia by Nero. Two other of his grandsons ruled greater Armenia. Many Jews settled in Armenia, but the Jewish population dwindled during the 4th century CE through being exiled and emigration.
There was an Armenian state before 1375. In the centuries after losing its independence, Armenia remained mostly under Muslim Turkic or Persian rule until the Russian annexation of the Karabakh Khanate in 1801.
However, Christian Armenians were known to be living in Jerusalem since the 5th century CE having created their Armenian quarter in the Old City.
Speaking of the Ottoman Empire and Erdogen wanting to be at it's head again, Armenia was almost wiped out primarily by the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) during the Armenian Genocide of World War I, with the perception of an Armenian alliance with Russia serving as a pretext for the massacres.
Before World War I, Armenians occupied a somewhat protected, but subordinate, place in Ottoman society.
Massacres of Armenians
Large-scale massacres of Armenians had occurred in the 1890s and 1909. It existed from May (28th de jure, 30th de facto) 1918 to 2 December 1920 in the Armenian-populated territories of the former Russian Empire known as Eastern or Russian Armenia. The republic was established in May 1918, with its capital in the city of Yerevan, after the dissolution of the short-lived Transcaucasian Federation. It was the first Armenian state since the Middle Ages.
Russia's role was more of a complex mix of an oppressive ruler of Eastern Armenia and an unreliable wartime ally to Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, ultimately leading to a catastrophic situation for the Armenian people.
This genocide was implemented primarily through the mass murder of around one million Armenians during death marches to the Syrian Desert and the forced Islamization of others, primarily women and children.During their invasion of Russian and Persian territory in 1914, Ottoman paramilitaries massacred local Armenians. Ottoman leaders took isolated instances of Armenian resistance as evidence of a widespread rebellion, though no such rebellion existed, and decided on genocide to permanently forestall the possibility of Armenian autonomy or independence.
On 24 April 1915, Ottoman authorities arrested and deported hundreds of Armenian intellectuals and leaders from Constantinople. At the orders of Talaat Pasha, an estimated 800,000 to 1.2 million Armenians were sent on death marches to the Syrian Desert in 1915 and 1916. Driven forward by paramilitary escorts, the deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to robbery, rape, and massacres; survivors were dispersed into concentration camps.
In 1916, another wave of massacres was ordered, leaving about 200,000 deportees alive by the end of the year. Around 100,000 to 200,000 Armenian women and children were forcibly converted to Islam and integrated into Muslim households. Massacres and ethnic cleansing of Armenian survivors continued through the Turkish War of Independence after World War I, carried out by Turkish nationalists. No, the Ottoman Empire was not a nice governing body.They were deplorable.
Regarded as "the apex of horrors conceivable" before World War II, the genocide destroyed more than two thousand years of Armenian civilization in eastern Anatolia. Alongside the genocides of Assyrian/Syriac and Greek Orthodox Christians, it enabled the creation of an ethnonationalist Turkish state, the Republic of Turkey.
The Turkish government maintains that the deportation of Armenians was a legitimate action that cannot be described as genocide. As of 2025, 34 countries have recognized the genocide, concurring with the academic consensus. There are about 195.countries in the world. This number includes 193 member states of the United Nations and two non-member observer states: Palestine and the Holy See (Vatican City). I do not accept a Palestine so the number is about 194. This means that 160 countries go along with the Ottoman Empire today of not considering that the Armenians died through genocide. To me that means that there are only 34 civilized countries.in the world. Russia is not one of them. Neither is Turkey.
Late 19th and early 20th centuries: A significant number of Armenians came to the USA after the Hamidian massacres (mid-1890s), the Adana massacre 1909), and the Armenian Genocide 1915-1918) in the Ottoman Empire.,
To think that my father was born in 1908 in Portland, Oregon and amassacre in Europe was taking place the next year, is shocking.
Hamidian massacres, series of atrocities carried out by Ottoman forces and Kurdish irregulars against the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire between 1894 and 1896. They are generally called the Hamidian massacres—after the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II, during whose reign they were carried out—to distinguish them from the later Armenian Genocide, which began in 1915. Mass immigration began in the late 19th century due to persecution in the Ottoman Empire, with many arriving between 1899 and 1917. Subsequent waves have come from the Middle East and the former Soviet Union due to regional instability, with the community growing to become the second largest Armenian diaspora population globally.
The Adana massacres occurred in the Adana vilayet of the Ottoman Empire in April 1909. Many Armenians were slain by Ottoman Muslims in the city of Adana as the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 triggered a series of pogroms throughout the province.
- Opposition to Turkish Troops in a Peacekeeping Force: Due to Erdoğan's strong rhetoric against Israel, and Turkey's support for Hamas, Israel has explicitly opposed any Turkish troops joining a potential multinational stabilization force for Gaza, a position the U.S. has said it will respect. Erdogan has over and over stated a Hamas act as coming from Israel; like keeping food from the civilians. It's Hamas who steals it and then turns around and sells it to their own people.
Resource: Update: 1:00pm
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide#:~:text=Before%20World%20War%20I%2C%20Armenians,of%20Armenian%20autonomy%20or%20independence.
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