HIST 1308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Turkish Language, San Remo Conference, Djemal Pasha
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The armenians were slaughtered and were sentenced death marches spanning thousands of miles away from their homes. Approximately 1 million armenians were killed during the. The ottoman empire (the remnants represent modern-day turkey) refuses to acknowledge the genocide occurred to this day. The british invade the ottoman empire in world war i. They are defeated in their first invasion of gallipoli, but the british still were able to take baghdad, mesopotamia and jerusalem. Within the ottoman empire, an opposition party forms called the ottoman decentralization. Jamal pasha, known as the butcher, views this party as traitors to the ottoman empire. He decides to publicly hang the party"s leaders. The arab revolts were led sharif husain b. ali. Amir abdullah, with the help of the british (led by t. e. Lawrence from lawrence of arabia), fight against the ottoman empire. Mcmahon correspondence was an agreement that the british would back husain"s revolts and give him a ton of territory.
