What is the Armenian Genocide?

What is the Armenian Genocide?

The atrocities committed against the Armenian people by the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish state during the course of the First World War and years before and after, are collectively called the Armenian Genocide.

The Armenian Genocide was centrally planned and administered by the State of Turkey against the entire Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire. It was carried out during the First World War between 1915 and 1918.

The Armenian people were subjected to deportation, expropriation, kidnapping, torture, massacre and starvation. The vast majority of the Armenian population was forcibly removed from Armenia and Anatolia to Syria, where a large part was sent to the desert to die of hunger and thirst. Large numbers of Armenians were methodically massacred throughout the Ottoman Empire. Women and children were abducted and brutally abused. All the wealth of the Armenian people was expropriated.