The Armenian Genocide is True.

Here is an outline I have done about the Armenian Genocide.

Outline:

General and specific purpose: To persuade my audience that the Armenian Genocide really happened.

Central idea: The main cause of the Genocide was the aim to establish a Pan-Turkic empire, and the way it happened was awful, and there are many facts and proofs about the Genocide; moreover, the Armenians never forget it.



I. Introduction

A. What would you feel or do if you lose your beloved ones in a war, massacre, or as in Armenian’s case, in a genocide? Would you just close your mouth, and be quiet, and do nothing? I doubt.
B. Did the Armenian Genocide really happen? Yes it happened and without any doubt.
C. Before beginning the Jewish Holocaust, Hitler said, “I have given orders to my Death units to exterminate without mercy or pity men, women, and children belonging to the Polish speaking race. After all who remembers today the extermination of the Armenians?”
D. It’s impossible for us the Armenians to forget what happened, and we will never lose our hope in taking back our rights and possessions.

Transition: So now I’m going to talk about the main cause of the Armenian Genocide, how it happened, and I will give you many proofs and facts about the Armenian Genocide.


II. Body

A. The main cause of the Genocide was the aim to establish a Pan-Turkic empire.
1.The Turkish leadership desired to establish a Pan-Turkic empire spreading all the way
to Turkic speaking parts of central Asia.
2.The Armenian nation was the obstacle to this expansion.
3.So, the Turk pashas Enver, Jemal, and Talat masterminded the plan to completely
eradicate the Armenian race, in a step towards fulfilling their Pan- Turkic dreams.
4. Moreover, Talat Pasha said, “I will leave just one Armenian in the world, and put him in
the Museum, so that people will know that Armenians existed in the past.”
But he didn’t reach his aim.

Transition: Now that we talked about the main cause of the Genocide, let’s talk about how the Genocide happened.

B. How did the Armenian Genocide happen?
1. First, on April, 24, 1915, the Turkish government arrested all Armenian intellectuals, politicians, doctors, community leaders, educators, etc., and deported and executed them.
2. After that, the Ottoman military uprooted Armenians from their homes and forced them to march for hundreds of miles, depriving them of food and water, to the desert “Derzor” in Syria. These conditions led to the death of many deportees.
3. Armenians didn’t know what was planned for them, and went along with their government’s plan to “relocate them for their own good.”
4. The death marches led across Anatolia, the Armenians were raped, starved, dehydrated, murdered, and kidnapped along the way.
5. Those who survived and escaped the crimes, murders, and massacres of the Turks, usually received assistance from foreign missionaries and from Arabs. My grandfather was one of the survivors.
6. My grandfather used to tell my father how he survived after being deported, he also told him that when he was in the death march, they were with bare feet , and he was crying and asking his mother for food and water, but his mother, unable to do anything, cried more and continued walking.

Transition: Now that I told you how the Genocide happened, let’s see some facts and proofs about the Genocide, and its recognition by countries.

C. There are many proofs and facts about the Armenian Genocide.
1.Deportations were done from Anatolia and Cilicia, and not from Ankara and Istanbul, where are the locations of ambassadors, so that nobody would know about it.
a. Of course at that time there were no communication means: television, radio, telephone, etc.
b.The entire world was occupied by the World War one; every country was in his own problems.
c. Fortunately, the world’s most important country’s, U.S., ambassador, Mr. Morgetaw was there and wrote many reports and sent them to his country saying, “So many ugly things are happening here, Turks are massacring Armenian minority in Anatolia violently.” These reports are yet in the hands of Armenians as proofs.
2. All the three Pashas who planned the Genocide were later executed by Armenians.
a. Talat Pasha, after three years of being investigated, was killed in Germany by Soghomon Tehlirian, who was taken to the court of Nuremberg city for judgment and he was declared and set free. He was a single survivor of all his extended family.
b. The killer of Jemal Pasha, Missak Torlakian, has visited our house in 1964 to see my grandfather as an intellectual man. When my grandfather saw him, he came onto his knees in front of him, and kissed his hands saying, “With these two hands you killed that criminal!”
3. In 1989, a U.S. Senate proposed to turkey to recognize the Armenian Genocide, in the context of the publication of internal U.S. documents which laid out a State Department official’s
eyewitness report that “Thousands and thousands of Armenians, mostly innocent and helpless
women and children were butchered in the last period of the Ottoman empire.” Turkey
responded by blocking U.S. Navy visits to Turkey.
4. Even many Turkish intellectuals believe in the Genocide, and they are being threatened by the Turkish government. Example nowadays there is a plot to kill Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish Nobel laureate who was charged with “insulting Turkishness” for stating that “A million Armenians were killed in these lands.”
5. 21 countries and 42 U.S. states have recognized the Armenian Genocide. Some of these
countries are: Argentina, Canada, Lebanon, France, Russia, etc. The first country that
recognized the Armenian Genocide is Uruguay in 1965, and the last country is Chile in 2007.
And year by year, the countries recognizing the Genocide are increasing in number.
6. The most efficient and tangible proof of the Armenian Genocide is that I am here, why am I here in your opinion? Why are Armenians spread all over the world?

Transition: Now that we saw the proofs and facts about the Armenian Genocide, let’s see what does this day mean for Armenians.

D. Ninety-three years after the Armenian Genocide Armenians still remember their unforgettable tragedy. For Armenians, April 24 is a day of sorrow, reflection, and pride.
1. It is a sorrow for the uncountable lives lost, for their ancient culture that reduced to dust, as well as for their properties and wealth they lost.
2. This day is a reflection on how to deal with the past in the present for a better future.
3. This day is a pride for surviving the worst crime in this world.

Transition: In this speech I have talked about the main cause of the Armenian Genocide, how it happened, and I gave you many proofs and facts about the Armenian Genocide. So now we reached the conclusion.

II. Conclusion.

A. Those who say forget about it, it is in the past, are wrong. Unless crimes like this are faced up to and compensated for, they will be committed again by people who don’t fear persecution or justice. This is revealed in what Hitler said before beginning the Jewish Holocaust, and we mentioned it in the introduction.
B. Moreover, whoever sits quietly and doesn’t do anything about the injustice and crime is also a criminal.
C. Dear listeners, the least thing you can do:
1. Do not stay silent in front of injustice and crime, or else you are a criminal.
2. Do something about the injustice, and do not simply accept it as it is.
3. This is what the Armenians are doing till now, and they will never surrender.
4. We mustn’t surrender in front of anything.