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armenian genocide
the prosecution of armannians start by the turkish people
The Armenian population in Sivas province is disarmed.
The Turkish forces arrest, torture and kill many remaining Armenian notables in Zeitun.Public hangings of six Armenian soldiers are executed to frighten the Armenian population.
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armenian genocide
The Turks burn the famous monastery of Zeitun.
80 Villages in the Van Province are obliterated and 24,000 Armenians killed in 3 days.
April 24th : 250 Armenian intellectuals are arrested in Constantinople and later slain.20 Armenian Social Democratic Hnchak Party members are arrested and publicly hung on June 2nd. The Russian forces arriving in Van cremate bodies of the victims, 55,000 of which are Armenian. 3,000 Armenians from the city of Erzerum are murdere
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armennian genocide
In 47 days between January and March, 364,000 of 486,000 deportees are reported killed or dead of hardships.
Lord Bryce reports 50,000 Armenians are reported murdered at Intille.Aleppo reports to the Interior Ministry that 75% of Armenian deportees in the desert are dead. The New York Times reports 80,000 Armenians dead of starvation around Damascus. 60,000 Armenian deportees are reported massacred in the Der-el-Zor area. Wilhelm Radowitz reports that of the 2
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armenian genocide
Of 45,000 Armenian deportees reported living in dire conditions, 10,000 are women and the rest mainly orphans.
12,000 Armenian deportees are murdered in Buseira, near Der-el-Zor.
20,000 Armenians in Aleppo are reported to be in extreme distress.
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Germans attempt to stop the massacre ordered by Enver to kill all Armenians in 48 hours over the age of 5 remaining in the Turkish military. Talaat announces he will grant amnesty to Armenians in Turkey upon his return from the Peace Conference at Brest-Liovsk: an immaterial gesture to pacify the Europeans as most Armenians were deported outside of Turkey, those remaining were systematically being eradicated. On May 28th, and Armenian Republic is proclaimed in Russian Transcaucasia. Talaat, Enve -
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Mustafa Kemal lands at Samsun on assignment from the Ministry of War and the Grand Vizier in Constantinople as inspector-general of central Anatolia. May 28th, the first anniversary of independence, the public of Armenia declares the unification of Causcasian and Turkish Armenia
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armenian genocide
10,000 Armenians are massacred in Marash.
of 10,000 living in Hadjin, only 480 survive a massacre by Turkish Nationalist forces.
According to the articles 226-230 in the Treaty of Sevres pertaining to massacres, the Turkish government promises to relinquish all documents and any persons to the Allies. -
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In Berlin, Jemal Azmi, the governor-general of Trebizond during the massacres, and Behaeddin Shakir are assassinated. Jemal Pasha, former Minister of the Marine and Fifth Army commander in Syria, is assassinated in Tiflis, Georgia. Armenians face more violence as the advance guard of Turkey enters Smyrna, pillaging and ransacking Armenian and Greek homes and stores. The Armenian Prelacy and other religious institutions are ransacked, and thousands of Armenians and Greeks are killed. Smyrna is bu -
armenian genocide
The Ottoman government abolishes the court martial's. Although Turkish court martial had condemned Talaat to death on July 11, 1919, Armenian student Soghomon Tehlirian assassinates him on March 15th in Berlin. Talaat's remains are later enshrined in a great ceremony on Liberty Hill in Constantinople. Between June 2nd and 3rd, Tehlirian is tried in German court and acquitted. -
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The Treaty of Lausanne is signed by Turkey and the Allies, but with no mention of Armenia or the Armenians. International recognition is extended to the new Turkish Nationalist State, and the Ottoman Empire goes out of existence. On October 29th, the Turkish Grand National Assembly with Mustafa Kemal as its President proclaims the Republic of Turkey. -
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