What groups where involved both as victim and aggressor in the genocide armenia?

Answer 1

Murder and expulsion of Turkish Armenians by the Ottoman Empire under Abdulhamid II in 1894 - 96 and by the Young Turk government in 1915 - 16. In 1894, when the Armenians began agitating for territorial autonomy and protesting against high taxes, Ottoman troops and Kurdish tribesmen killed thousands. In 1896, hoping to call attention to their plight, Armenian revolutionaries seized the Ottoman Bank in Istanbul. Mobs of Muslim Turks, abetted by elements of the government, killed more than 50,000 Armenians in response. Sporadic killings occurred over the next two decades. In response to Russia's use of Armenian troops against the Ottomans in World War I (1914 - 18), the government deported 1.75 million Armenians south to Syria and Mesopotamia, in the course of which some 600,000 Armenians were killed or died of starvation.

Answer 2

The victims in the Armenian Genocide were the Armenians. The adult and teenage males were separated from the deportation caravans and killed under the direction of Young Turk functionaries. Women and children were driven for months over mountains and deserts, often raped, tortured, and mutilated. The aggressors were the Turks of the Ottoman Empire under the "Young Turk" government. The Pontic Greeks and the Assyrians were also targeted by the Ottoman Turks.