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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 Isla...
Armenian Genocide, campaign of deportation and mass killing conducted against the Armenian subjects of the Ottoman Empire by the Young Turk government during World War I (1914–18). Armenians charge that the campaign was a deliberate attempt to destroy the Armenian people and, thus, an act of genocide.
The Armenian Genocide laid the ground for the more homogeneous nation-state that eventually became the Republic of Turkey. By the end of the war, more than 90 percent of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire were gone, and many traces of their former presence had been erased.
The Nagorno-Karabakh Genocide website complements the premier Internet resource on the Armenian Genocide that already contains extensive information on the events of 1915 and their consequences, including historic records, an extensive database of affirmation statements from around the world, another database of Armenian Genocide memorials ...
Armenian Genocide 1915. UNV 100: Never Again? Holocaust & Genocide in the 20th and 21st Century. Dr. Dauda Abubakar. Documentary. Genocide Denied. "The controversial story of the 20th Century’s first genocide. In 1915, an estimated 1.5 million Armenians were slaughtered at the hands of the Ottoman Turks."
The Memorial also pays tribute to the 1.5 million canonized martyrs who perished during the Armenian Genocide of 1915–1923. Soil from Aurora Mardiganian’s resting place in Los Angeles, ...
The Aurora Humanitarian Initiative on September 30 in Yerevan unveiled the Memorial to Aurora Mardiganian and the Martyrs of the Armenian Genocide. Aurora Mardiganian was a young girl who escaped the horrors of the Armenian Genocide, moving to America, where she became a silent-era Hollywood star and a philanthropist.
