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 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Armenian genocide was the deportation, killing, assimilation, and forced conversion to Islam of most Armenians from 1915 to 1917 in the Ottoman Empire, which was ruled by the Young Turks.[4]
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Armenian Genocide | |
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Part of World War I | |
Location | Ottoman Empire |
Date | 1915–1917[1][2] |
Target | Ottoman Armenians |
Attack type | Genocide, death march, forced Islamization |
Deaths | 600,000–1.5 million[3] |
Perpetrators | Committee of Union and Progress |
Trials | Ottoman Special Military Tribunal |
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