Historians maintain Ottoman ethnic cleansing of Armenians in what is now eastern Turkey and northern Syria during the First World War killed about 1.5 million people and amounted to the first genocide of the 20th century. George Clooney In Armenia, Commemorates Genocide Synopsis: In 1909, fol...
Today, Western Armenian is characteristically spoken in the Armenian diaspora by Armenians deriving from Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, and other countries of the Middle East—primarily those displaced by the genocide of Armenians in Turkey in 1915. Contemporary speakers of Eastern Armenian are ...
The distribution of Armenians in the early 17th century, a few decades after its conquest by the Ottomans, within the current borders of Turkey according Armenian government:[4]. Dark pink – Armenian majority, light pink – significant Armenian presence / Yerevanci,Wikimedia Commons After many ...