Erdogan Dragging Turkey into an Islamist Path
By Tufail Ahmad
On April 24, Armenians organised events in the memory of the 1.5 million people killed by the Ottoman Turkey a century ago. The massacre, occurring through the World War I and till 1922, is dubbed as the 20th century’s first genocide. The Christian Armenia was ruled by the Ottomans. The scale of the massacre can be gauged from the fact that 10 million Armenians, more than three times the current population of Armenia, live abroad as their grandparents had to flee for their lives. Turkey was heading the Islamic caliphate. From 1915 onwards, the Ottomans had implemented a policy of expulsions and killings of Armenians, much as Pakistan kills Baloch intellectuals today. Images from the time show Ottoman soldiers rounding up Armenians and marching them to deserts and prisons. Recently, Turkey criticised Western nations for recognising the Armenian genocide.
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