THE GENOCIDE PROJECT
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CHAPTER 02 / CASE NO.2 / THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
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01. CITY OF MARASH FROM THE HILLSIDE / BEGINNING AGAIN AT ARARAT / M. ELLIOT, 1924 02. EXECUTION OF ARMENIANS IN A PUBLIC SQUARE / THE BURNING TIGRIS / PETER BALAKIAN, 2003
IN BRIEF
In 1915 and 1916 between 600,000 and 1.5 million Ottoman Armenians perished as a result of a conscious programme of elimination implemented by the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) regime then in control of the Ottoman Empire. The killing took various forms, but central to it were a series of death marches into the Syrian desert, carried out by Turkish army, para-military and special units. Most scholars consider these events to have constituted a genocide. The Turkish government still disputes the use of the term ‘genocide’ to describe the events .
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