One of the darkest pages of history opens on April 24, 1915, when the Ottomans capture 200 Armenian intellectuals in Constantinople. From that day, just 110 years ago, the nightmare that will cost the life of 1.5 million people: the Armenian genocide. It was a long week of 1915 when the Young Turks’ regime, ordered by Interior Minister Talaat Pasha, launches the first mass arrests of leadership forms of the Armenian community: writers, doctors, teachers, priests, politicians. The first 200 are transferred to the Ankara prisons, where few will return. It was the prelude to an organized plan to exterminate the entire Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire. The New Turks, fearing that the Armenians could allied with Russia during World War I, launched an unprecedented wave of violence. Displacement, torture, desert deaths, mass executions. Entire villages disappeared. The women were in a hurry, the children were given to Turkish families or murdered, the men were first exterminated. By 1923, when he was now […]
Source: News Beast
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