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Armenie Genocide
Armenian ceevilians, escortit bi Ottoman sodgers, mairched throu Harput (Kharpert) tae a prison in nearbi Mezireh (present-day Elâzığ), Aprile 1915.
Date 1915-1923[note 1]
Target Armenie population
Attack type Deportation, mass murther
Deiths 1.5 million[note 2]
Assailants Ottoman Empire (Committee o Union an Progress)

The Armenie Genocide[11] (Armenie: Հայոց ցեղասպանություն,[note 3] Hayots tseghaspanutyun), an aa kent as the Armenie Holocaust,[12] wis the Ottoman govrenment's seestematic extermination o 1.5 million Armenies, maistly Ottoman ceetizens within the Ottoman Empire an its successor state, the Republic o Turkey.[13][14]

Notes[eedit | eedit soorce]

  1. The Armenie Genocide is generally associatit wi 1915, the year that maist o the atrocities teuk place. The span varies frae soorce tae soorce: 1915–1916, 1915–1917, 1915–1918, 1915–1923, 1894–1915, 1894–1923
  2. 1.5 million is the maist published nummer,[4][5][6] houever, estimates vary frae 800,000 tae 1,800,000[7][8][9][10]
  3. Հայոց ցեղասպանութիւն in clessical Armenian orthografie

References[eedit | eedit soorce]

  2. Kevorkian, Raymond (2011). The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History. I.B.Tauris. p. 710. ISBN 978-0-85773-020-6. Retrieved 18 June 2016. 'In retaliation, we killed the Armenians of Khoy, and I gave the order to massacre the Armenians of Maku.' ... Without distorting the facts, one can affirm that the centuries-old Armenian presence in the regions of Urmia, Salmast, Qaradagh, and Maku had been dealt a blow from which it would never recover. 
  4. "Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex". Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute. Retrieved 17 June 2016. 
  6. "The forgotten Holocaust: The Armenian massacre that inspired Hitler". The Daily Mail. London. 11 October 2007. 
  7. Göçek, Fatma Müge (2015). Denial of violence : Ottoman past, Turkish present and collective violence against the Armenians, 1789-2009. Oxford University Press. p. 1. ISBN 019933420X. 
  9. Forsythe, David P. (11 August 2009). Encyclopedia of human rights (Google Books). Oxford University Press. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-19-533402-9. 
  11. Armenian Genocide (affirmation), The International Association of Genocide Scholars, That this assembly of the Association of Genocide Scholars in its conference held in Montreal, June 11–3, 1997, reaffirms that the mass murder of Armenians in Turkey in 1915 is a case of genocide which conforms to the statutes of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. It further condemns the denial of the Armenian Genocide by the Turkish government and its official and unofficial agents and supporters. 
  12. Fisk, Robert (14 October 2006). "Let me denounce genocide from the dock". The Independent. Archived frae the oreeginal on 24 January 2014. Retrieved 31 August 2016. 
  13. "8 facts about the Armenian genocide 100 years ago -". CNN. Retrieved 2015-12-13. 
  14. "100 Years Ago, 1.5 Million Armenians Were Systematically Killed. Today, It's Still Not A 'Genocide.'". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2015-12-13.