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1894 - Series of attacks against Armenians
by Kurdish Bandits encouraged by the Sultan
of the Ottoman empire.1909 - Some of the Armenians who lived there
(Sarikamis Russia) helped the Russians against
the Ottomans. The Ottoman government took
this as evidence that the Armenians were
not to be trusted.April 1915 - “two hundred prominent Armenian
leaders in Istanbul were summarily
arrested, exiled, and subsequently executed”April 1915 - Some Armenians initiated an uprising
in protest of Armenian repression.April 1915 - The days that followed the uprising, a
sizable portion of the Armenian elites (23,405
people out of a community of 150,000) was
swept up, tortured, deported to Angora, and
killed. Minister of the Interior Talat Pasha
justified these arrests with reference to the
uprising at Van and the intervention of Russian
troops that evacuated 210,000 people
threatened with annihilation.1915 - the U.S. ambassador to the Ottoman
Empire, Henry Morgenthau (1856–1946), cabled
his government to say “the persecution of
Armenians is assuming unprecedented proportions1916 - Armenian populations, who were to be
driven by force to desert spaces extending
between Mosul and Aleppo. This constituted the
turntable of the deportation completed by the
end of 1916.1919 - More Armernians were killed during the
Turkish War of Independence.Nov. 20, 1920 - Armenia declared a Soviet State1923 - “Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 (...) included
a declaration of amnesty for any crimes
committed between 1914 and 1922. This treaty
allowed the Turkish government an immunity
that ultimately led to a policy of denying the
genocide happened.”1927 - In the Turkish Republic's first census in
1927, there were only sixty-five thousand to
seventy-seven thousand Armenians living in
Turkey, from a population of over two million
before the war.1936 - Armenia became one of 15 Soviet
Socialist Republics.1948-1949 - Repatriated Armenians
deported by Stalin.1987 - “the British Parliament was the first to
acknowledge the genocide, and many European
countries followed suit.”1915-1918 - Between 1915 and 1918,
many Armenians fled to neighboring
countries, including Lebanon.2009 - the countries moved to establish
diplomatic relations, however continued
tensions regarding the genocide and other
issues continued to complicate negotiations,
and complete reconciliation did not appear
likely by early 2014.2009 - In April 2009, officials from both
countries met and announced an agreement on
a process to normalize Turkish-Armenian
relations.April 2013 - more than 10,000 people marched
through the streets of Beirut, Lebanon,
demanding that Turkey acknowledge its mass
extermination of Armenians almost a century
earlier.
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