The Armenian Massacre-Part II

On Apr 27, 2023

The years 1894 and 1896 constitute two decisive points in the history of the Armenians and their suffering from the national intolerance of the Ottoman government of Union and Progress, which tended towards Turanian ideas. Abdul Hamid II is accused of being the first to carry out massacres against the Armenians and other Christians who were under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. With the outbreak of World War I, the Ottomans took advantage of the world’s preoccupation with this war, so they attacked the Armenians in 1915, in light of international failure to stop the Ottomans and they carried out one of the the largest massacres in human history of the Armenians known as the Armenian massacre. The massacres increased the phenomenon of migration. The sympathy of the Arabs was clear, as the Muslim Arabs received the displaced Armenians with good will, and they showed generosity and support for the weak, depicting Arab morals. The Armenians lived through the years of diaspora, but they were able to form large communities that preserved their social relations, rituals, and Armenian history.

The Armenians skilled labourers and craftsmen relied on themselves to earn a living and contributed to building their new societies. The patronage of the Arabs had an impact on their successes since the first generation of immigration until now. The Armenians’ loyalty to the Arabs was not limited to the afflicted generation, but rather extended to successive generations. Because the Armenians who suffered from the horrors and tribulations of the genocide instilled in the hearts of their children gratitude for the Arabs and conveyed the feelings of loyalty that no Armenian in the diaspora hesitates to express at every opportunity. In order to strengthen the fraternal and eternal bonds between the Arab and Armenian peoples, and in appreciation of the care and concern that the Arabs provided for the convoys of the displaced Armenians following the massacres of 1915, a number of religious and secular figures called for the idea of erecting a monument in the city of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, symbolizing recognition of the beauty inherited from a generation to generation.

The best model of Armenian / Arab relationship can be found in Syria. The Armenians in Syria have become one of the most important elements of diversity in Syrian society.
The Armenian historian Raymond Kevorkian confirms that the large Armenian migrations to the Arab region and Syria were due to the continuous Turkish persecution. The Aleppo historian Sheikh Kamel Al-Ghazi says that the population of Aleppo reached two hundred and ten thousand people by the end of the year 1925, and the Armenians constituted twenty-five percent of the city’s population .

Armenian immigrants to Syria played a civilized role in the industrial and economic life of the Syrians-and they were loyal to the new homeland that embraced them. This relationship and this affiliation established close relations with the modern Armenian state. In the last period, the story of the Armenians and their relationship with the Syrians was reflected in the Syrian cultural and social life.The Syrians were aware of the dreadful role played by Turkey in its attempt to eradicate Armenian history and culture and so when Turkey attempted to do the same in Syria by occupying swathes of land , replacing Arabic names with Turkish ones and trying to falsify the culture and facts they remembered the story of the Armenians and they

stood firm during the war.

Editor – in – Chief

Reem Haddad

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