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SECRET TREADY
AN ALLIANCE WAS SIGNED BETWEEN TURKEY AND GERMANY. WHICH PLACING THE TURKISH ARMED FORCES UNDER GERMAN COMMAND. -
CITY OF DIYARBEKIR
ON AUGUST OF 1914, ABOUT 1,080 STORES OWNED BY ARMENIANS WERE BURNED IN THE CITY OF DIYARBEKIR. -
THE OTTOMEN EMPIRE ENTERS WW1
OTTOMAN BOMBS RUSSIAN BLACK SEA PORTS, UNDER GERMAN COMMAND. -
CHETE ATTACKS ON ARMENIANS
CHETE FORCES ATTACK THE VILLAGE OF PROVINCE, KILLING THE LOCAL ARMENIAN PRIEST AND CIVILIANS. AFTER MILITARY LEADERS ACCUSED OF JOINING THE RUSSIAN FORCES. -
Armenians Hung
Six Armenian soldiers are hanged in Sivas to frighten the Armenians. Also Greek recruits are massacred near Smyrna. -
Leaders Arrested
Mass arrest of Armenian political leaders is carried out in Sivas and other provinces. -
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Deaths of Armenians
Ethnic cleansing of Armenians launched with murders, burning of villages, rapes, deportations. Estimates more than one million are dead at the campaign’s end. -
Armenian Refugees
Armenian refugees from villages surrounding the city of Van arrive and notify the inhabitants that 80 villages in Van Province were already destroyed and that 24,000 Armenians had been killed. -
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ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
TURKISH GOVERNMENT DEPORTED, KILLED, AND PUT TWO MILLION ARMENIANS IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS, IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. -
Armenian Leaders
About 250 Armenian community leaders are arrested in Constantinople and sent to Chankri and Ayash, where they were killed. -
Armenian Genocide Begins
Several hundred Armenian leaders, writers, and intellectuals are arrested, and most were murdered. -
Diyarbekir
630 Armenians arrested on May 10 in Diyarbekir are murdered in the village of Bisheri while in custody and their bodies are thrown in the Tigris river. -
Deporting
Turkish forces begin removing and deporting the Armenian population from villages in the vilayet of Erzerum. -
Leaders Hung
21 leaders of the Hnchukyan Party are hanged in Constantinople. -
Armenian soldiers
About 2,000 Armenain soldiers in the turkish army used as laborers are massacred near kharput. -
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Turkish Armies
Turkish armies kill or remove Armenians of Shapin Garahisar, that tried to defend themselves. -
Labor Camps
2,000 Armenian soldiers working in labor camps by Diyarbekir, were killed. -
Murders in Jezire
About 4,750 Armenians are murdered in Jezire. -
Russia's Defeat
Enver Pasha blames the defeat on Armenians for having actively sides with the russians. -
Allies
Turkey signs armistice with the Allies, Ottoman Empire is subsequently dismantled.
