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Facts

Also Known As Armenian massacre of 1915
Date January 1915 - 1916
Location Ottoman Empire • Turkey
Context Balkan Wars • World War I • Young Turks • Hamidian massacres

Did You Know?

  • During WWI, the government abducted Armenian children and gave them to Turkish Muslim families.
  • Even today, it is prohibited to talk about the Armenian Genocide in Turkey.
  • The term Armenian genocide was first written in the New York Times in 2004.

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Enver Paşa
Enver Paşa
Ottoman general
Abdülhamid II
Abdülhamid II
Ottoman sultan
Talat Paşa
Talat Paşa
Turkish statesman