 Tehcir Law

The Tehcir Law (from "tehcir", a word of Arabic origin in Ottoman Turkish and meaning "deportation" or "forced displacement" as defined by the Turkish Language Institute), or, officially by the Republic of Turkey, the "Sevk ve İskân Kanunu" (Relocation and Resettlement Law) was a law passed by the Ottoman Council of Ministers on May 27, 1915 authorizing the deportation of the Ottoman Empire's Armenian population.The resettlement campaign resulted in the deaths of anywhere between 800,000 and over 1,500,000 civilians in what is commonly referred to as the Armenian Genocide.