Armenian Genocide
1915 mass killing
The Armenian Genocide was the systematic mass murder and deportation of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I, from 1915 to 1923.
Estimates place the death toll between 1 and 1.5 million.
The term serves as a reference point in discussions of genocide recognition, as Turkey officially disputes the characterization: The U.S. finally recognized the Armenian Genocide in 2019.
- ethnic cleansingSystematic removal of populations
- massacreLarge-scale unlawful killing
- Nanking Massacre1937 mass atrocity against Chinese civilians
- exterminationComplete destruction of a group
- slaughterKilling for meat
death march · survivors · deportation · lost homeland · Treaty of Lausanne · recognition · denial · Ottoman Empire · crimes against humanity · World War I · Turkey · broken promises · Yerevan · witnesses · Armenian Highlands · Aleppo · remembrance · diaspora
- turkeyIstanbul, Ankara, turkey breast, turkey leg, Anatolia
- Ottoman EmpireOttoman Empire, sultans, grand vizier, Constantinople, Suleiman
- ArmeniaYerevan, Mount Ararat, Ararat, Etchmiadzin, dram
- Armenian diasporamigration patterns, dual identity, April 24, 1915, heritage preservation
- Armenian HistoryArmenians, Etchmiadzin, Yerevan, Mount Ararat, Ararat
- displacementdislocation, dislodging, relocation, displacing, uprooting