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The trafficking of Armenian women as sex slaves was an important source of income for accompanying soldiers. In Arab areas, enslaved Armenian women were sold at low prices. The German consul at Mosul reported that the maximum price for an Armenian woman was "5 piastres" (about 20 Pence Sterling at the time). [23]
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.
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.
The Armenian genocide resulted in the death of up to 1,500,000 people from 1915 to 1918. Under the cover of World War I , the Young Turks sought to cleanse Turkey of its Armenian population. As a result, much of the Armenian population was exiled from large parts of Western Armenia and forced to march to the Syrian desert. [ 15 ]
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 ...
Arab slavers An Armenian woman in slavery after the genocide bears thistles to fuel home. Armenian woman put up for auction, 1915 Islamized Armenians who were "rescued from Arabs" after the First World War and the Armenian genocide. Slavery existed in the territory of the modern state of Syria until the 1920s.
The Armenian Genocide was the “first non-colonial genocide of the twentieth century”. [12] It happened during World War I, and it was carried out by the Turkish Regime and the Committee of Union and Progress; CUP, which included the Ottoman Empire and The Republic of Turkey.
Armenia was one of the world's most successful countries when it comes to the fight against human trafficking. [4] The 2016 TIP report placed Armenia once again in "Tier 1", it made mention of the pivotal role Armenia's Anti-TIP Working Group was making, including representation from the government, civil society, and international ...