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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.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 September 2024. 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 ...
Map of the U.S. states that recognize the Armenian Genocide (50 out of 50) The United States' recognition of the Armenian genocide is the American formal recognition that the deportation and massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during the First World War constituted genocide.
Estimates of the number of Armenians who perished vary widely, with historians offering a range of about 700,000 to 1.2 million.
A 1910 British ethnographic map of the Middle East; Armenians shown in green, Kurds in yellow, Turks in brown. Many explanations of the Armenian genocide focus on the CUP's desire to resolve the Armenian question by eliminating the Armenians.
Map of Armenian casualties; The destruction of Armenians in Ottoman Empire in 1914-17 The data in this map is from Talaat Pasha's own report on the Armenian genocide, as found and translated by the historian Ara Sarafian from the Ottoman Archives of Istanbul.
Description. Armenian Genocide Map-en.svg. English: Map of the Armenian Genocide in 1915. Each size shows a massacre. There are three types of massacre: in a control centre (red dot), in a station (pink dot), in a concentration and annihilation center (black dot). The size of the dot shows the relative number of killed Armenians.
Witnesses and testimony provide an important and valuable insight into the events which occurred both during and after the Armenian genocide. The Armenian genocide was prepared and carried out by the Ottoman government in 1915 as well as in the following years. As a result of the genocide, as many as 1.5 million Armenians who were living in ...