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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.
Armenian genocide: 1915–1923 Ottoman Empire: Committee of Union and Progress government 800,000–1,500,000 [5] [6] September Days: September 1918 Baku, Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (under Ottoman control at the time) Army of Islam Azerbaijani mobs 10,000–30,000 [7] Muslim uprisings in Kars and Sharur–Nakhichevan: July 1919 – July 1920
The Deir ez-Zor camps were concentration camps [1] in the heart of the Syrian Desert in which many thousands of Armenian refugees were forced into death marches during the Armenian genocide. The United States vice-consul in Aleppo , Jesse B. Jackson , estimated that Armenian refugees, as far east as Deir ez-Zor and south of Damascus , numbered ...
The argument that the genocide was planned prior to World War I and that the war merely provided an opportunity to accomplish it—including such claims as the genocide being decided at the CUP's 1910 or 1911 congresses [3] —predominated in early studies of the Armenian genocide but has since come to be discounted by most scholars.
Joe Manganiello recalls his Armenian ancestor, who survived a genocide, in Finding Your Roots, and learned she had a child with a German man, and his connects to Nazi Germany.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 February 2025. Governments' recognition of the Ottoman empire's mass killing of Armenians as genocide The eternal flame at the center of the twelve slabs, located at the Armenian Genocide Memorial complex in Yerevan, Armenia Armenian genocide recognition is the formal acceptance of the fact that the ...
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The Armenian Genocide Memorial complex (Armenian: Հայոց ցեղասպանության զոհերի հուշահամալիր, Hayots tseghaspanutyan zoheri hushahamalir, or Ծիծեռնակաբերդ, Tsitsernakaberd) is Armenia's official memorial dedicated to the victims of the Armenian genocide, built in 1967 on the hill of Tsitsernakaberd (Armenian: Ծիծեռնակաբերդ) in Yerevan.