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WHAT IS A GENOCIDE?
- Genocide is intentional action to destroy a people (usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group) in whole or in part.
- The term has been coined and applied to the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide and many other mass killings including the genocide of indigenous peoples in the Americas, the Greek genocide, the Assyrian genocide, the Serbian genocide
ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
- The Armenian Genocide
- The Ottoman government’s systematic extermination of 700,000 to 1.5 million Armenians, mostly citizens of the Ottoman Empire.
WHY THE GENOCIDE HAPPENED?
- Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire – 24 Jul 1923
- Ottoman Empire was a predominantly Muslim empire.
- Jizya collected from Christian and Jewish communities was among the main sources of tax income of the Ottoman treasury.
WHY THE GENOCIDE HAPPENED?
- There were suspensions within Ottoman empire whether the Armenian Christians would support the empire or the “outside” forces
ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RECOGNITION
- Armenian Genocide denial is the act of denying the planned systematic genocide of 1.5 million Armenians during World War I, conducted by the Ottoman government.
- Turkey similarly denies the genocides perpetrated against indigenous Assyrians and Greeks during the same period. As a form of denialism, it can be compared to similar negationist historical revisionisms such as Holocaust denial and Nanking Massacre denial.
ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RECOGNITION
- Armenian Genocide recognition is the formal acceptance that the systematic massacres and forced deportation of Armenians committed by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923 constituted genocide.
- The governments of Turkey and its close ally Azerbaijan are the only ones that directly deny the historical factuality of the Armenian Genocide, and both are adamantly opposed to the recognition of the genocide by other nations, threatening economic and diplomatic consequences to recognizers.
THE 1985 UN GENOCIDE REPORT, THE “WHITAKER REPORT”
- The 1985 UN Genocide Report, the “Whitaker Report“
- In 2015, Pope Francis said that the Armenian Genocide was “considered the first genocide of the 20th century”.
- Turkey responded by accusing the Pope of having a “crusader mentality” against the country. The Vatican strongly denied this, claiming that the Pope had actually called for reconciliation between Armenians and Turks.
INTERESTING FACT
- Pakistan’s relations with Armenia are poor and Pakistan is the only country that does not recognize Armenia as a state.
- Internationally, since the 1970s Pakistan has supported Turkey’s policy of denying the Armenian genocide happened.
- Because of the perceived pro-Azerbaijan and pro-Turkey policies by Pakistan, Armenia has developed friendly relations with India, and supports the Indian position on the Kashmir conflict.
SHOULD INDIA RECOGNISE THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
SHOULD INDIA RECOGNISE THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
- Both sides had then set a two-way trade target of $10 billion by 2020, up from $6.4 billion at the time. Bilateral trade had only reached $7.84 billion in 2018-19, according to Department of Commerce data.
- An increasing number of Indian tourists — fast emerging as among the world’s largest group of travelers, thanks to a booming economy and growing incomes — are being wooed by the world and Turkey is no exception. The Turkish Tourism Board in India revealed that between January to July, 2019, Turkey registered a 56% increase in the number of Indian tourist arrivals in comparison to the same period last year, hosting 1.3 lakh Indian visitors. Importantly, the Turkish Tourism Board expects to get around 2.5 lakh Indian tourists by the end of this year.
INDIA TURKEY TRADE
- More than 150 companies with Indian capital have registered businesses in Turkey in the form of jointventures, trade and representative offices.
- These include some of India’s blue chip companies like TATA Motors, Reliance, Mahindra and Mahindra, Wipro, Dabur and Ispat, among many others, while Turkey ranks ranks 41st overall in terms of FDI inflows into India.
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