The Armenian women would smear mud on their faces to make themselves look ugly to avoid being raped by Turkish soldiers. All of the men were killed first so it was difficult to fight back.
Armenians
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.
It ended in 1917, but there were further massacres of Armenians by the Turks in 1922.
Greeks and Armenians.
The Armenians, of whom between 600,000 and 1,8 million were systematically killed. The Turks themselves however maintain that this was an unfortunate case of ethnic violence and that death figures of Armenians are exaggerated, but among scholars there is very little doubt that the killings were well-organized by the Ottoman government.
In the Ottoman empire.
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.
1896
The Ottoman Empire was responsible for the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1917. It was the Armenians who were targeted by Ottoman Turks and Kurdish allies.
Armenians.
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.
The Armenian Genocide
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.
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.
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
Greeks and Armenians.