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Who were the perpetrators of the Armenian genocide?
In the Ottoman empire.
When was the worst massacre of Armenians by Turks?
1896
Who did the Ottoman Turks use the war as an opportunity to kill?
Armenians.
In 1915 ottoman Turks killed who?
Armenians
What accusation did the Muslim Turks lodge against the Christian Armenians?
The Turks accused the Armenians of aiding the Russians in World War I to circumvent Ottoman defenses in the East with minimal evidence. Now they accuse the Armenians of trying to defame their name because of the Armenian request that the world recognize the Armenian Genocide.
What did they do to the armenians?
1.5 million Armenians were Massacred in the Ottoman Empire by Turkish soliders led by a group called the Young Turks. The Young Turk party was led by three brothers, Talaat Pasha, Jemal Pasha, and Enver Pasha. They want ed to create a Pan-Turkic Empire. The marched the Armenians through dessserts on Death Marches, raped young women, shot them, burned them alive, starved them, and even bayonetted pregnant mothers. Turky denies it's occurence to this day.
What was the first major war-time genocide involving the Armenians and Turks?
The Armenian Genocide
Why did Armenians leave their country?
In 1915 there was a massive genocide when the Turks killed millions of Armenians so many left to find a better place to live and to escape.
Who was involved besides the turks and Armenians in the Armenian genocide?
There were Kurdish militias that assisted the Young Turks in hunting down and butchering Armenians. Unlike the Turkish government, Kurdish leaders in subsequent decades have admitted their role in the genocide and requested forgiveness for their crime.
How do the Armenian genocide victims get compensation?
They never did. The turks to this day deny its happening and as of yet the turks have not addmitted to the murder of more than a million armenians
Between 1915 and 1918 what christian minority group was targeted by the ottoman Turks?
Greeks and Armenians.
Hwo did the armenian genocide end?
It ended in 1917, but there were further massacres of Armenians by the Turks in 1922.
