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the Young Turks had the political organization Commitee of Union and Process. In 1908, the Third Army and the Second Army Corps declared their opposition to the Sultan and threatened to march on the capital to depose him for the Armenians' wanted equality and threatened to overthrow the Sultan
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A countercoup took place on April 13, 1909. Some Ottoman military elements, joined by Islamic students, aimed to return control of the country to the Sultan and the rule of Islamic law. Riots and fighting broke out between the forces and CUP forces, until the CUP was able to put down the uprising and court-martial the opposition leaders. 15,000–30,000 Armenians were killed in the course of the "Adana Massacre"
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In 1912, the First Balkan War broke out and resulted in a defeat of the Ottoman Empire and the loss of 85% of its territory in Europe
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the armed conflict of the Siege of Van began when an Armenian woman was harassed and the two Armenian men that came to her aid were killed by Ottoman soldiers.
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Genocide starts when Ottoman arrested 250 Armenia intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople
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The American Committee for Relief in the Near East was a relief organization established on May 14, 1915, after the deportations, to end the suffering of the american people. Relief was distributed across a wide range of geographical locations. A relief organization for refugees in the Middle East helped donate over $102 million to Armenians both during and after the war.
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Mass burnings Eitan Belkind was a Nili member, who infiltrated the Ottoman army as an official. He was assigned to the headquarters of Kamal Pasha. He claims to have witnessed the burning of 5,000 Armenians
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Trabzon was the main city in Trabzon province; Oscar S. Heizer, the American consul at Trabzon, reports: "This plan did not suit Nail Bey.... Many of the children were loaded into boats and taken out to sea and thrown overboard."
