• Director: Mark Bedrosian
  • Release Year: 2010
  • Production Country: United States
  • Language: English

1915 Armenian Genocide

Description

In addition to reforming the Ottoman constitution, the political group known as the Young Turks embarked upon a planned destruction of the Christian Armenian population of Turkey in what is now widely agreed to be one of the first modern acts of genocide and the second-most studied Holocaust.

Themes

Holocaust (Armenian), Ottoman Empire (1299 – 1922), World War I (1914 – 1918), Religion, Islam, Christianity, Refugees, Nationalism, Balkans, Forced relocations, Personal violence, Survivors, Death camps, Public History, Public memory, Death camps, Primary sources, Oral history, Young Turks