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By the early 1920s, when the genocide finally ended, between 600,000 and 1.5 million Armenians were dead, with many more forcibly removed from the country. Today, most historians call...
Apr 23, 2021 · As many as 1.5 million ethnic Armenians died from starvation, killings by Ottoman Turk soldiers and the police, and forced exoduses south into what is now Syria and elsewhere in the Middle...
The Armenian genocide [a] 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 ...
During World War I, under the Ottoman Empire, between 600,000 and 1,000,000 Armenian people died in a genocide - the deliberate killing of an ethnic or religious group - and the remaining Armenian population was permanently displaced.
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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.
Apr 24, 2021 · President Biden recognized the killing of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians as "genocide" Saturday, over the objections of Turkey. Here's what happened in 1915.
Apr 24, 2021 · As many as 1.5 million Armenians were killed in what was the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Yet the Turkish government has refused to acknowledge the crime as genocide, even to this day.