Armenian Genocide

ARMENIAN GENOCIDE INTRODUCTION: Genocide is the deliberate extermination of a people or a nation. The twentieth century will always be remembered for the genocide that Adolf Hitler perpetrated against the Jews of Europe. But there was a lesser-known genocide during the First World War which may not have matched Hitler’s in scale but certainly matched it in atrocity. This was the Armenian genocide masterminded by the Young Turk government of Turkey in 1915. Historically, the …

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