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Armenian Genocide
Overview of the history and controversy surrounding the Armenian Genocide.
On April 24, 1915, Talat Paşa, who served as the Ottoman minister of the interior, ordered the arrest of approximately 250 Armenian intellectuals and politicians in Istanbul.1
Citing episodes of Armenian resistance, including events in Van, the government utilized these arrests as a precursor to the broader Armenian Genocide, a systematic campaign of deportation and mass murder that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Armenians. Most of the intellectuals and politicians detained during this initial action were killed in the months that followed.12