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May 17, 2024 · Armenian Genocide, campaign of deportation and mass killing conducted against the Armenian subjects of the Ottoman Empire by the Young Turk government during World War I. Armenians charge that the campaign was a deliberate attempt to destroy the Armenian people and, thus, an act of genocide.
- The Roots of Genocide: The Ottoman Empire. The Armenian people have made their home in the Caucasus region of Eurasia for some 3,000 years. For some of that time, the kingdom of Armenia was an independent entity: At the beginning of the 4th century A.D., for instance, it became the first nation in the world to make Christianity its official religion.
- The First Armenian Massacre. Between 1894 and 1896, this “box on the ear” took the form of a state-sanctioned pogrom. In response to large scale protests by Armenians, Turkish military officials, soldiers and ordinary men sacked Armenian villages and cities and massacred their citizens.
- Young Turks. In 1908, a new government came to power in Turkey. A group of reformers who called themselves the “Young Turks” overthrew Sultan Abdul Hamid and established a more modern constitutional government.
- World War I Begins. In 1914, the Turks entered World War I on the side of Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. (At the same time, Ottoman religious authorities declared a holy war against all Christians except their allies.)
The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through the mass murder of around one million Armenians during death marches to the Syrian Desert and the forced ...
The Armenian genocide took place between the spring of 1915 and the fall of 1916. At least 664,000 and possibly as many as 1.2 million Armenians were killed. They died in both massacres and individual killings. They were also killed through systematic ill-treatment, exposure, and starvation. 3
Apr 23, 2021 · The Armenian Genocide, in History and Politics: What to Know. After years of avoiding the topic, the U.S. government now officially views the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman...
Armenian Genocide - Ottoman Empire, 1915, Ethnic Cleansing: The battle of Sarikamis in 1915 was the worst Ottoman defeat of the war. The Young Turk government blamed Armenian treachery. Disarmed Armenian soldiers were murdered by Ottoman troops, the first victims of what would become genocide; eventually hundreds of thousands of Armenians were ...
Apr 24, 2021 · CNN — The massacre of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by Ottoman forces during World War I – and the question of whether it should be called a genocide – remains highly contentious a century...
