When Armenia fell to Ottoman rule in the 15th Century, the tiny country in the Caucasus was absorbed into the Turks' mighty empire. Over the next five hundred years, the Armenians would make a name for themselves as Ottoman subjects but, in that time, suspicions on behalf of the ruling class began to emerge. A Christian minority in a Muslim majority country, Armenians were seen as outsiders and infidels and, therefore, not to be trusted. These suspicions and hatred reached a fever pitch by the early 20th Century when, during World War One, the Ottoman government carried out a mass genocide against its Armenian population. Now, over a century later, the descendants of its victims continue to feel its effects as the Turkish government to this day refuses to neither accept culpability nor acknowledge that it ever happened. Join me as we take a look at this oft-overlooked crime against humanity and shine some much-needed light on the tragedy.
