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Mehmed Reshid
He is known for organizing the wartime destruction of the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek communities of Diyarbeki -
Halil Kut
He was an Ottoman regional governor and military commander -
Mustafa Abdülhalik Renda
He was a Turkish civil servant and politician, and a close co-worker of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. -
Enver Pasha
Ottoman military officer and a leader of the Young Turk revolution -
Halid Pasha
He was a military officer of the Ottoman Army and a general of the Turkish Army -
Children Killed
Armenian children victims of Erzerum massacre -
A poor 4 year old girl escaped death while her grandmother dies.
Khathun Vanudjyan, 4 years old, wounded by Turkish bullet, which killed her grandmother -
Perpitrators
The Young Turks used WWI as a suitable opportunity for deporting the Armenians -
Djevdet Bey
The governor of the Van vilayet of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. -
Beginning of the Armenian Genocide
The first phase of the Armenian massacres began with the arrest and murder of nearly hundreds intellectuals, mainly from Constantinople, the capital of Ottoman Empire -
Talaat Pasha
Talaat issued an order to close all Armenian political organizations operating within the Ottoman Empire and arrest Armenians connected to them, justifying the action by stating that the organizations were controlled from outside the empire, were inciting upheavals behind the Ottoman lines, and were cooperating with Russian forces. -
Procedures taken upon Armenian Women
Women were kidnapped either by the Ottoman Turkish soldiers or Kurdish bands, or Bedouins killing any who tried to oppose them: tens of thousands women and children perished on the way to deserts, while others, in order to escape humiliation and violence, committed suicide. -
An attempt to prevent the Turks, after the fact!
TheTriple Entente warned the Ottoman Empire that "In view of these new crimes of Turkey against humanity and civilization, the Allied Governments announce publicly to the Sublime Porte that they will hold personally responsible for these crimes all members of the Ottoman Government, as well as those of their agents who are implicated in such massacres. -
Denial!!!
Von Wangenheim sent a cable to Berlin reporting that Talat had admitted that the deportations were not "being carried out because of 'military considerations alone.'" One month later, he came to the conclusion that there "no longer was doubt that the Porte was trying to exterminate the Armenian race in the Turkish Empire -
Rape = unpreventable, weakness of the Armenian Women
Sexual violence as a form of psychological torture was also committed by making Armenian men the helpless witnesses to the rape of their mothers, sisters, wives, or daughters. -
Ottoman Empire Passed a Law
The Ottoman parliament passed the "Temporary Law of Expropriation and Confiscation", stating that all property, including land, livestock, and homes belonging to Armenians, was to be confiscated by the authorities. -
Deportation
The Armenian deportees concentrated in Suruj District, were sent toward Der-el-Zor under very severe winter conditions, completely lacking food, shelter, and suitble clothing -
The inocent children
The remains of Armenian children, drawned in the Black sea, Trapezund, 1916 -
Death Tolls Estimated
Half a million to one and a half million Armenians are estimated to have been killed as a result of the Armenian genocide, as well as Armenian communities and personal properties lost. -
Women -> Property
Armenian women who were tattooed or branded like cattle by those who took them as their sexual slaves. -
Perpitrator of the Armenian Genocide
Enver Pasha was one of the leaders of the Young Turks and a leading member of Sublime Porte.
He was killed in Tajikistan by Hagop Melkumov an Armenian member of the Red Army -
Movie which portrays the torture of women in the Armenian Genocide
This movie was about women who were abducted and kept in slavery for many years somewhere in Turkey. Forcibly marked—tattooed—as property, the same way you mark cattle. http://www.armenianweekly.com/2011/09/07/%E2%80%98grandma%E2%80%99s-tattoos%E2%80%99-a-riveting-film-about-the-forgotten-women-of-genocide-trailers/
