WHAT IS ARMENIAN ISSUE?
When the Ottoman Empire began to weaken and to be subjected to European intervention in almost every field, the Turco-Armenian relations began to deteriorate. The Western countries aimed at creating a rift between Armenians and Turks in order to achieve their regional interests by dividing the Ottoman Empire. Especially some great European countries interfered on one hand in the internal affairs of the Ottoman Empire under the pretext of the reforms (slahat)”, and they organized the Armenians against the Ottoman government on the other. Thus, as a result of the provocative activities of the Armenian churches and the Armenian committees organized and armed at home and abroad, the Armenian society gradually got alienated from Turks. Armenians, who began to struggle with Turks by allying with the foreign states despite the tolerance of the Turkish people, tried to present themselves as an oppressed community in order to receive the support of the West and started to express that the Turks
