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Library of Congress caption: "Armenians rescued from Arabs" Following the Armenian genocide, vorpahavak (Armenian: որբահաւաք; lit. ' gathering of orphans ') was the organized effort to rescue "hidden" Armenian women and children who had survived the genocide by being abducted and adopted into Muslim families and forcibly converted to Islam.
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 ...
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.
October 13, 1915, Duluth News Tribune, "Tells of Further Atrocities by Turks Archived 2014-04-16 at the Wayback Machine" October 13, 1915, Los Angeles Times, "Gives Details of Massacres: American Committee Receives News from Armenia; Convicts are Turned Loose to Murder People; Thousands of Victims are Killed on Highways."
Armenia is classified as "partly free" in a 2024 report (with data for 2023) by Freedom House, which gives it a score of 54 out of 100. [4] Armenia has made improvements in its Human Freedom Index score from the Cato Institute. According to the 2021 report, Armenia ranks 40th overall. It ranks 48th for personal freedom and 15th for economic ...
"The Armenian Genocide resolution is a proper test for American democracy. It will uncover priorities of the United States – good relations with Turkey or historical truth", Russian State Duma member, Konstantin Zatulin told a news conference in Yerevan on 21 October 2007. [25]
According to the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Armenia, seven people will be charged with “preparing to usurp power … using violence and the threat of violence to take over the powers of government.” [4] [5] [1] According to Armenian officials the plotters consisted of an undisclosed number of Armenian nationals led by 5 Armenians and 2 former citizens of the Republic of ...
The Armenian National Committee of South America (CNA) said that "Turkey must return territories to Armenia, according to the terms issued by the President of the United States Woodrow Wilson", despite the superseding Treaties of Alexandropol and Kars signed by Armenia and Turkey confirming the current borders between the two countries. [39]