Talk:World Socialist Republic/@comment-29810058-20160830192516

The Armenian Genocide[11] (Armenian: Հայոց ցեղասպանություն,[note 3] Hayots tseghaspanutyun; Turkish: Ermeni Soykırımı), also known as the Armenian Holocaust,[12] was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of 1.5 million[note 4] Armenians, mostly Ottoman citizens within the Ottoman Empire and its successor state, the Republic of Turkey.[13][14] The starting date is conventionally held to be 24 April 1915, the day that Ottoman authorities rounded up, arrested, and deported 235 to 270 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders from Constantinople to Ankara, the majority of whom were eventually murdered. The genocide was carried out during and after World War I and implemented in two phases: the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and subjection of army conscripts to forced labour, followed by the deportation of women, children, the elderly and infirm on death marches leading to the Syrian desert.