The Armenians settle in the Ottoman empire in 18th century.
Coup brings the ultra nationalist Young Turks to power in Constantinople.
Turkey signed a secret treaty with Germany and attacks Russian ports and enter war on the German side. So Armenians considered them internal enemies.
The Ottoman empire committees discuss eliminating the Armenian people entirely.
Armenians that were in the Ottoman army were removed and forced into labor battalions
The Armenian Genocide officially starts.
200 people arrested in Constantinople and 2,000 people followed and almost all killed
In May many Armenians deported east. A law passed where the Turks could take any property of the Armenians left behind for "War Necessitates."
April 15 to May 1918 Ethnic cleansing of Armenians launched on vast scale with murders, looting, burning of villages, rapes, deportations. Western observers estimate more than one million are dead at the campaign’s end.
Turkey signs armistice with the allies. Ottoman empire is finished.
1919 to 1920 Turkish court cases issue guilty verdicts against three pashas and three senior that encouraged the genocide.