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The Armenian Holocaust happened because Turkish militia were ordered by their government to kill all people within Turkey that were Christians. This happened in 1915 and thousands of people were killed before this atrocity was halted.

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The Turks wanted a homogeneous Turkish state.

The reason was to get rid of non-Muslim elements of Ottoman empire (therefore Armenians, alongside Pontic Greeks and Assyrians, were massacred or deported to their deaths in the Syrian desert).

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The Young Turks wanted to create a singular national Turkish identity based on a singular Turkish ethnicity. The Armenians were the most powerful group of Non-Turkish people in the Ottoman Empire. They had to be removed.

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Turkey didn't want any Armenian on the Earth ......Just one in the museum....

Thats what Enver Pasha said.

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The Otoman Turks (by religion Muslim) wanted to wipe out Christians of neighboring Armenia

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