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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 visual material partly consists of secretly shot photographs of the death marches, Turkish atrocities and suffering of the Armenian deportees. Aghet – Ein Völkermord was awarded the 2010 Deutscher Fernsehpreis [ 2 ] and the 2011 Grimme Award , [ 3 ] two of the most prestigious awards of German television .
The deportation orders of the Armenian population of modern-day Turkey, issued by the Ottoman government, in July 1915 reached the six Armenian villages of the Musa Dagh region: Kabusia (Kaboussieh), Yoghunoluk, Bitias, Vakef, Kheter Bey (Khodr Bey) and Haji Habibli. [3]
In 1911–1915, he served as Italian Consul in Trabzon and was an eyewitness to the massacres in and around the area. [180] In August 1915, with Italy's participation in the war effort and their subsequent declaration of war against the Ottoman Empire, Gorrini was forced to leave his office. [180]
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.
The story starts in 1915 when Arshaluys was 14 years old. She personally witnessed the murder of her father, mother, brothers and sisters. She was taken to the harem of a number of Turkish pashas, but had remained attached to her Christian Armenian faith despite being tortured repeatedly at the hands of her captors.
Üngör, Uğur Ümit (2017). "How Armenian was the 1915 Genocide?". Let Them Not Return: Sayfo - The Genocide Against the Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire. Berghahn Books. pp. 33– 53. ISBN 978-1-78533-499-3. Suny, Ronald Grigor (2015). "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian ...
An American Diplomat's Report on the Armenian Genocide, 1915–1917, ed. by Susan X. Blair, N.Y., 1989; His reports were dramatised in a BBC Radio 4 play, 'The Light of Darkness', broadcast on 4 September 2011. [6] It was written by Louis Nowra, a playwright who has researched Davis's life and work and the history of Harput.