Great Catastrophe
Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide
by Thomas de Waal
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appears in About Armenia.
The destruction of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 191516 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 Gen...
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