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A FORGOTTEN GENOCIDE

During the second half of the nineteenth century, the Armenian population of the Ottoman Turkish Empire became the target of
increasing persecution by the Ottoman government.
Between 1915 and 1923, a systematic and deliberate campaign of genocide by the Ottoman Turkish government resulted in the deaths of over 1.5 million Armenians and the exile of a
nation from its historic homeland.
On April 24, 1915 the Armenian leadership in Istanbul and other Armenian centers was executed; the male population, already
conscripted into the Ottoman Army, was disarmed, placed in work battalions, and gradually executed; the surviving women,
children and elderly were sent on death marches through the desert.
By the beginning of World War I, there were more than 2,500,000 Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire; today fewer than 80,000
declared Armenians remain in Turkey, mostly in Istanbul and Western Turkey. The Eastern provinces, the Armenian heartland, are virtually without Armenians.

THE PATTERN OF PERSECUTION

1894-1896: 300,000 Armenians massacred during the reign of Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II.

1909: 30,000 Armenians massacred in the area of Adana.

1915-1923: 1,500,000 Armenians killed, more than 500,000 exiled from the Ottoman Empire

1923-present: The Turkish government's campaign to deny the Armenian Genocide

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