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Armenian Genocide
systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I implemented by the Ottoman authorities through mass murder
Details
- Instance of
- genocide, ethnic violence, forced displacement
- Date
- 1915
- Start time
- 24 April 1915
- End time
- 1923
- Location
- Ottoman Empire, Western Armenia, Six vilayets
- Country
- Ottoman Empire
- Participants
- military of the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Special Organization, Young Turks, Committee of Union and Progress, Turkish National Movement, Kurds, Turks
- defendant
- Talaat Paşa, Enver Pasha, Djemal Pasha, Doktor Nâzım, Bahaeddin Şakir, Said Halim Pasha, Mehmed Reshid, Şükrü Kaya, Fritz Bronsart von Schellendorf, Yenibahçeli Nail Bey, Cemal Azmi, Mehmed Kemal Bey
- manifestation of
- anti-Armenian sentiment, Turkish nationalism
- number of deaths
- 1200000
- perpetrator
- Modern Ottoman Army
- topic's main category
- Category:Armenian genocide
- victim(s)
- Ottoman Armenian casualties
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