On April 24th 1915, 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 (now Istanbul in present day Turkey). Armenians worldwide commemorate the April 24th as a day that memorializes all the victims of the Armenian Genocide.
The second phase of the ‘final solution’ appeared with the gathering of some 60,000 Armenian men into the general Turkish army, who were later disarmed and killed by their Turkish fellowmen.
The third phase of the genocide includes the massacres, deportations and death marches made up of women, children and the elderly into the Syrian deserts. During those marches hundreds of thousand were killed by Turkish soldiers and Kurdish mobs. Others died because of famine, epidemic diseases and exposure to the elements. Thousands of women and children were raped. Tens of thousands were forced to convert to Islam.
Finally, the fourth phase of the Armenian genocide appeared with the total denial by the Turkish government of the mass killings and elimination of the Armenian nation on its homeland. Despite the ongoing international recognition of the Armenian genocide, Turkey has consistently fought the acceptance of the Armenian Genocide by any means, including false scholarship, propaganda campaigns, lobbying, etc.
The term “Ottoman” was to be replaced with “Turk.” What this meant for the Armenians, among other ethnic minorities in the Anatolian region, was that they were ethnically inferior to the superior Turkish race – much like the “inferior” Jews and gypsies in Nazi Germany.
"The Three Pashas which were the three dictators of the Ottoman were killed by the Turks. Then the Turks took over and started to kill all the Armenians, which in turn was killing their own kind because the Turks were just rebel Armenians.
The second phase of the ‘final solution’ appeared with the gathering of some 60,000 Armenian men into the general Turkish army, who were later disarmed and killed by their Turkish fellowmen.
The third phase of the genocide includes the massacres, deportations and death marches made up of women, children and the elderly into the Syrian deserts. During those marches hundreds of thousand were killed by Turkish soldiers and Kurdish mobs. Others died because of famine, epidemic diseases and exposure to the elements. Thousands of women and children were raped. Tens of thousands were forced to convert to Islam.
Finally, the fourth phase of the Armenian genocide appeared with the total denial by the Turkish government of the mass killings and elimination of the Armenian nation on its homeland. Despite the ongoing international recognition of the Armenian genocide, Turkey has consistently fought the acceptance of the Armenian Genocide by any means, including false scholarship, propaganda campaigns, lobbying, etc.
The term “Ottoman” was to be replaced with “Turk.” What this meant for the Armenians, among other ethnic minorities in the Anatolian region, was that they were ethnically inferior to the superior Turkish race – much like the “inferior” Jews and gypsies in Nazi Germany.
"The Three Pashas which were the three dictators of the Ottoman were killed by the Turks. Then the Turks took over and started to kill all the Armenians, which in turn was killing their own kind because the Turks were just rebel Armenians.