A publication detailing the history, facts and principles of the historic genocide of Armenians by Turkey from 1915 to 1922.

The systematic extermination of about 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman government during and after WWI inspired the formulation of a new term that would come to haunt the modern civilized world genocide. It was a harbinger of other genocides that would deeply scar and stain the twentieth century. To this day, Turkey denies the genocide, instead claiming that the victims died of starvation or the violence of isolated gangs or the unintended effects...

"The destruction of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16 was a brutal mass crime that prefigured other genocides in the 20th century. By various estimates, more than a million Armenians were killed and the survivors were scattered across the world. Although it is now a century old, the issue of what most of the world calls the Armenian Genocide of 1915 has not been consigned to history. It is a live and divisive political issue that mobilizes...

Discusses the Armenian genocide at the hands of the Turkish government during WWI, the historical events that led to it, the aftermath and lack of response from the international community, and how the tragedy is viewed in the twenty-first century. Includes timeline and glossary.