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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.
The 20 Hunchakian gallows (Armenian: Քսան կախաղան, K'san kakhaghan, also "The 20 Martyrs" and "The 20s") [1] is the common name for the group of Hunchakian activists who were hanged in the Sultan Beyazıt Square of Constantinople (now Istanbul) on June 15, 1915, during the Armenian genocide.
A French warship embarks Armenian refugees from Musa Dagh in September 1915. Location of the Armenian camp during the resistance. The remains of the monument near the top of Musa Dagh in memory of the French warships that rescued the Armenian people on 12 September 1915.
In 1915, Büll witnessed the Armenian genocide in Cilicia and was instrumental in saving the lives of about two thousand Armenian children and women when Maraş was turned into "The City of Orphans". [ 279 ] [ 280 ] Büll was recalled from Maraş in 1916.
In April, 1915, hundreds of young men were suddenly imprisoned. In June, 1915, the region's Armenian religious leader was executed. Then, 200 Armenian merchants were killed as a part of a systematic campaign of genocide by the Ottoman authorities. The able-bodied Armenians of Shabin-Karahisar thus decided to confront the Ottomans.
Version of the declaration forwarded to the Ottoman Empire by the United States State Department Coverage on the front page of The New York Times, 24 May 1915. On 24 May 1915, on the initiative of Russia, the Triple Entente—Russia, France, and the United Kingdom—issued a declaration condemning the ongoing Armenian genocide carried out in the Ottoman Empire and threatening to hold the ...
1915 March: Zeitun Resistance (Armenian Resistance) 1915 April–May: Siege of Van (Armenian Resistance) 1915 May 27: Tehcir Law; 1915 June: Shabin-Karahisar uprising (Armenian Resistance) 1915 June: Musa Dagh Resistance (Armenian Resistance) 1915 July 26: Battle of Manzikert; 1915 September: Urfa Resistance (Armenian Resistance)
Armenian resistance included military, political, and humanitarian [1] efforts to counter Ottoman forces and mitigate the Armenian genocide during the first World War.Early in World War I, the Ottoman Empire commenced efforts to eradicate Armenian culture and eliminate Armenian life, through acts of killing and death marches into uninhabitable deserts and mountain regions.