Armenian Genocide
After coming to power in Constantinople, the Young Turks made the policy of "No Armenians - no Armenian Question" their main priority. Taking advantage of the favorable political conditions created by the World War I, they began the "final resolution of the Armenian question" on April 24th, 1915, by executing hundreds of Armenian intellectuals of Constantinople without trial.
In Armenian provinces of Eastern Anatolia all Armenian males aged 15-62 have been conscripted, disarmed and executed. Defenseless Armenian women, children and the elderly were deported to the Syrian desert Der-el-Zor; most of them were brutally murdered on the way by Turkish soldiers or Kurdish nomads, or died of starvation and exhaustion. More than one and half million Armenians, i.e. 80% of the Armenian population of Western Armenia, perished in this first Genocide of the twentieth century.
Several hundred thousand survivors of the Genocide found refuge in neighboring counties, laying the foundation of the worldwide Armenian Diaspora. By the year 1923 Western Armenia was completely de-Armenized, and successfully incorporated into the newly formed Turkish Republic.
Armenian History
Table of contents
- Armenians
- Artashisian Dynasty
- Arshakunian Dynasty
- The Armenian Alphabet
- Arab Invasion and Byzantine Empire
- Bagratunian Dynasty
- Rubinian Dynasty
- Armenia Under Turkish Rule
- Armenian Question
- Armenian Genocide
- Armenian Soviet Republic
- Nagorno-Karabakh movement
- Armenia Today
- Coat Of Arms
- The Flag
- Timeline
- Mer Hayrenik