April 24. 1915 marked the beginning of a deliberate persecution and execution of Armenians which claimed over a million and a half lives in just 8 years. These responsible citizens of the Armenian nation in Turkey were sought out and murdered because they were guilty of sharing a specific ethnic heritage. The Ottoman Empire attempted to completely erase this ethnic group. A healthy culture of over 2 million Armenians living in Turkey was completely destroyed by the end of 1923--the few Armenians lucky enough to escape death were deported from their homes. This deliberate and premeditated maelstrom resembles the Jewish persecution of the Holocaust which occurred only a few years later. Because these evil events are so similar.
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