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However, a doctor in the city of Stepanakert reported that up to 300 to 400 Armenian civilians had been killed in the war as of 25 October. [37] Armenian sources also indicated the clashes have displaced approximately half of Nagorno-Karabakh's population or approximately 70,000 people. [38]
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.
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.
In regards to the massacres, Arif was especially known for establishing a governmental commission that examined the events. On 18 March 1919, the commission concluded that 800,000 Armenians died during World War I. The figure became reputable after other Turkish historians such as Yusuf Hikmet Bayur used the figure in their research and writing ...
By 1923, about 295,000 Armenians ended up in the Soviet Union, mainly Soviet Armenia; an estimated 200,000 settled in the Middle East, forming a new wave of the Armenian diaspora; [5] and about 100,000 Armenians lived in Constantinople and another 200,000 lived in the Turkish provinces, largely women and children who had been forcibly converted ...
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 ...
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 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"