Operation Nemesis
Define Operation Nemesis
Organization and plan to assassinate the leaders of the Armenian Genocide.
What job did Henry Morgenthau have during the Armenian Genocide and World War I?
U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.
Dominant religion in the Ottoman Empire
Islam
April 24, 1915 is the agreed upon beginning of the Armenian Genocide. What even occurred in Constantinople on this date?
The arrest of scholars, business leaders, artists, and intellectuals.
This Top 5 University continues to employ scholars who actively deny the Armenian Genocide and are funded by the State of Turkey.
Princeton University
This semi-local town was the center of planning and funding of Operation Nemesis.
Watertown, MA.
Had the nickname, The Bloody Sultan
Sultan Abdul Hamid II
The outbreak of this conflict was used as cover for the murder of Armenians
World War I
Group of people who leaked information of the genocide to the outside world.
Journalists
Definition of "double killing" or "double murder"
Taking of life and taking of history/story
Soghomon Tehlirian assassinated Talaat Pasha on March 15, 1921 in broad daylight on the streets of this major European city.
Berlin
Fictional character. Served to represent the importance of journalists during the Armenian Genocide.
Chris Myers
Series of massacres beginning in 1895. named after the Sultan Abdul Hamid II
Hamidian Massacres
Methods used to kill majority of Armenians
shooting, starvation, death marches
Method Turkey uses to academically silence scholarly work inside Turkey.
Loss of job and prison
Operation Nemesis only targeted this specific sub-group of Ottoman Perpetrators.
Person most directly responsible for the Armenian Genocide.
Talaat Pasha
Pandemic event that was also used to explain the deaths of Armenians
Spanish Flu
1. There were no more Armenians to kill
2. Ottomans lost World War I
Israel
Soghomon Tehlirian intended to be captured after killing Talaat Pasha. Why?
To tell the world the story of the Armenian Genocide during his trial.
Group who comes to power as secular leaders after the Sultan is overthrown.
Young Turks
For this reason, the people of Van were punished, persecuted, and murdered.
Refusing to pay unjust taxes
U.S. President who finally recognized the genocide
Biden
Reasons Turkey still denies Armenian Genocide
Accountability and potential reparations