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April 19 2015
Armenian Genocide: A timeline
A brief history of the Armenian Genocide
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By Olivia Ward
Genocide Timeline
Hundreds of thousands of Armenians were massacred under the Ottoman
Empire. But the most horrifying event was to come in 1915.
1913: Coup brings the ultranationalist Young Turks to power in
Constantinople (Istanbul). Three ruling figures were Grand Vizier
Mehmed Talat Pasha, Minister of War Ismail Enver Pasha and Minister of
the Navy Ahmed Djemal Pasha: principal architects of the genocide.
October 1914: After signing a secret treaty with Germany, Turkey
launches attack on Russian ports and enters war on German side.
Armenians considered “internal enemies.”
February 1915: Talat Pasha tells the German ambassador it is time to
conclude the “Armenian question.” The ruling Ottoman Central Committee
discusses plans to “eliminate the Armenian people in its entirety.”
April 24, 1915: Talat Pasha orders arrest of more than 200 Armenian
intellectuals in Constantinople, and about 2,000 others follow. They
are deported and many of them killed.
April 1915 to May 1918: Ethnic cleansing of Armenians launched on vast
scale with murders, looting, burning of villages, rapes, deportations.
Western observers estimate more than one million are dead at the
campaign’s end.
October 1918: Turkey signs armistice with the Allies, Ottoman Empire
is subsequently dismantled.
1923: Turkey becomes republic under Kemal Ataturk.
From: Baghdasarian