Armenian genocide | |
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Column of Armenian deportees guarded by gendarmes in Harput Vilayet | |
Location | Ottoman Empire |
Date | 1915–1917 |
Attack type | Genocide, death march, forced Islamization |
Deaths | 600,000–1.5 million |
Perpetrator(s) | Committee of Union and Progress |
Trials | Ottoman Special Military Tribunal |
The Armenian genocide was the forced deportation and the killings of most Armenians from 1915 to 1917 in the Ottoman Empire, which was ruled by the Young Turks.
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