How Did The Ottoman Empire Decline In The Early 20th Century

While the Ottoman Empire was declining after putting themselves through many wars in the early 20th century, the new Turkish government pondered ways to revive their empire and return to an Islamic state as they were also getting themselves into World War 1. As the minority Armenian group was being accused of assisting the Russian enemy, an ethnic cleanse was a solution to the empire’s slump. Despite this ethnic cleanse and deportation of traitors being seen as good in the eyes of a Turk, their resolution was ultimately the mass slaughter of innocent people. In the midst of ridding the Armenian population, the empire fell in total. Relations between the Armenians and Turks had long deteriorated in the 400+ years since the Christian nation was first first conquered by the tolerant Muslim empire. For a while, the Armenians independently continued to govern themselves while under the rule of the Ottoman Turks, as well as other minority groups in the multicultural empire. Gradually, many of these rights were lost and they had no equality next to their Muslim neighbors. Armenian rebellions arose, as they strove for independence from the empire.
By now, the empire was abruptly falling apart and the government decentralized as territory was lost in these small wars. The Turks were up against enemy Russia for a second time in WW1 after the Baltic wars to regain territory; but the presence of Armenians was very unhelpful to the success of the Turkish military. Thus, after being falsely accused of assisting the enemy, began the Armenian