Armenian Diaspora in the United States of America [1890-1915]

Armenians, which lived in peace and tranquility in the same geography as the Turks for a long time, started to immigrate abroad in the 19th century, partially due to their own desire, partially due to the incentive of other states, partially due to the pressure of the diaspora Armenians. They related these immigration reasons to the Ottoman Empire's political pressure. However, Ottoman Empire was not in favor of the immigration of either the Armenians which they saw as their own citizen, or the other Christian groups or the Muslims. Nonetheless, despite all the precautions, the immigration incident continued intensely in the second half of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century. The Armenians who immigrated to the United States of America after the immigration tried to preserve their national identities through the colonies that they created there. However, they determined the hostility towards the Ottoman and Turk as a common aim in this identity preservation. Expressly, countless articles to the detriment of Turkishness and Ottoman were published in the local and national press with the beginning of the occurrence of the diaspora. Most of these news are far from reality and were made completely to serve the interests of Armenians and great states and made through their conduction. In this work, besides from the Ottoman Archive Documents, the keywords between the years of 1890-1915 from a newspaper archive containing 19.717.204 pages, which was published in the United States of America between 1777-1963 and transferred to a digital platform, were scanned. While these bits of information were being subjected to the assessment through a text analysis method, the books and articles about the subject were analyzed as well.