Armenian Genocide | |
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Part of World War I | |
Location | Ottoman Empire |
Date | 1915–1917[1][2] |
Target | Ottoman Armenians |
Attack type | Genocide, death marches, forced Islamization |
Deaths | 600,000–1.5 million[3] |
Perpetrators | Committee of Union and Progress |
Trials | Ottoman Special Military Tribunal |
The Armenian genocide consisted of the systematic mass murder, deportation, forced assimilation and conversion to Islam of most Christian Armenians during WWI in the Ottoman Empire, ruled by the Young Turks back then.[4]