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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 Islamization of others, primarily women and children.
Russian soldiers in the former Armenian village of Sheykhalan, 1915. Ottoman Armenian casualties refers to the number of deaths of Ottoman Armenians between 1914 and 1923, during which the Armenian genocide occurred. Most estimates of related Armenian deaths between 1915 and 1918 range from 600,000 to 1.5 million.
He also supported Armenian survivors and provided men and protection for expeditions in the Syrian desert aimed at rescuing Armenian deportees. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] According to testimonies, this method is said to have saved up to 4,000 people from the genocide, in collaboration with Hussein al-Attrache, a Druze chieftain who then disguised the ...
The US State Department document of the Armenian population in 1921. According to the US State Department, in 1922 there were 817,873 Armenian refugees who had originated from Turkey. [11] This figure was based upon information provided by the British Embassy in Constantinople and 1921 data from the Near East Relief Society.
Wegner protested against the atrocities perpetrated by the Ottoman government against the Armenian people in an open letter, published in the Berliner Tageblatt, submitted to American President Woodrow Wilson at the peace conference of 1919. [144] The letter made a case for the creation of an independent Armenian state.
Armenian–Tatar massacres: 1905–1907 Baku, Baku Governorate, Elizavetpol Governorate, Erivan Governorate, and Tiflis Governorate of the Russian Empire: Azerbaijani mobs and irregulars 500 [citation needed] Adana massacre: April 1909 Adana Vilayet and Aleppo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire: Muslim mobs 19,479 [3] –25,000 [4] Armenian genocide ...
Armenians (Armenian: հայեր, romanized: hayer, ) are an ethnic group and nation native to the Armenian highlands of West Asia. [44] [45] [46] Armenians constitute the main population of Armenia and constituted the main population of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh until the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh and the subsequent flight of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians. [47]
The following is a list of notable Armenian Genocide victims. See also: Category:Armenian genocide survivors and Category:People who died in the Assyrian genocide . Pages in category "People who died in the Armenian genocide"