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AN ALLIANCE WAS SIGNED BETWEEN TURKEY AND GERMANY. WHICH PLACING THE TURKISH ARMED FORCES UNDER GERMAN COMMAND.
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ON AUGUST OF 1914, ABOUT 1,080 STORES OWNED BY ARMENIANS WERE BURNED IN THE CITY OF DIYARBEKIR.
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OTTOMAN BOMBS RUSSIAN BLACK SEA PORTS, UNDER GERMAN COMMAND.
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CHETE FORCES ATTACK THE VILLAGE OF PROVINCE, KILLING THE LOCAL ARMENIAN PRIEST AND CIVILIANS. AFTER MILITARY LEADERS ACCUSED OF JOINING THE RUSSIAN FORCES.
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Six Armenian soldiers are hanged in Sivas to frighten the Armenians. Also Greek recruits are massacred near Smyrna.
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Mass arrest of Armenian political leaders is carried out in Sivas and other provinces.
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Ethnic cleansing of Armenians launched with murders, burning of villages, rapes, deportations. Estimates more than one million are dead at the campaign’s end.
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Armenian refugees from villages surrounding the city of Van arrive and notify the inhabitants that 80 villages in Van Province were already destroyed and that 24,000 Armenians had been killed.
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TURKISH GOVERNMENT DEPORTED, KILLED, AND PUT TWO MILLION ARMENIANS IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS, IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE.
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About 250 Armenian community leaders are arrested in Constantinople and sent to Chankri and Ayash, where they were killed.
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Several hundred Armenian leaders, writers, and intellectuals are arrested, and most were murdered.
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630 Armenians arrested on May 10 in Diyarbekir are murdered in the village of Bisheri while in custody and their bodies are thrown in the Tigris river.
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Turkish forces begin removing and deporting the Armenian population from villages in the vilayet of Erzerum.
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21 leaders of the Hnchukyan Party are hanged in Constantinople.
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About 2,000 Armenain soldiers in the turkish army used as laborers are massacred near kharput.
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Turkish armies kill or remove Armenians of Shapin Garahisar, that tried to defend themselves.
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2,000 Armenian soldiers working in labor camps by Diyarbekir, were killed.
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About 4,750 Armenians are murdered in Jezire.
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Enver Pasha blames the defeat on Armenians for having actively sides with the russians.
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Turkey signs armistice with the Allies, Ottoman Empire is subsequently dismantled.
