On April 24. 1915. 200 Armenian religious. political. and intellectual leaders from Istanbul were arrested and exiledin one fell swoop. silencing the leading representatives of the Armenian community in the Ottoman capital. This date is thus the symbolic beginning of the genocide. Over the years from 1915 to 1923. 1.5 million men. women. and children were deported. forced into slave labor. tortured. and exterminated. What happened in the Ottoman Turkish Empire during the years 191523 was more than a series of massacres in a time of instability. revolution. and war. It. was the first example of genocide in the 20th century. a precursor to the Nazi Holocaust. and other cases of ethnic cleansing and mass extermination in our own time.
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