By: Landon Steil Jesse Furber

TURKS AND KURDS (MUSLIMS)ARMENIANS (CHRISTIAN) Vs

Armenians were Christian: Therefore any second class citizen were called gavours which means non believer Any non-Muslim was singled out as a lesser person

 Non-Muslims could not: Testify against Muslims Carry Weapons Ride Horses Have Houses overlooking Muslim Houses Practice any religious rituals  Consequences Fines Jail Death  Since Armenians were Christian many of their rights were taken away from them and consequences were severe Armenians were treated as animals a Turk in the background seems to mock the mutilated bodies

 The Young Turk Party: Created an agency to take Armenian property and redistribute it Released convicts from prisons that were organized into killer units Organized the deportation of “Enemies” (Armenians)

 Propaganda Surfaces Armenians are siding with the enemy (Russia) They will overthrow Istanbul They will kill the Committee of Union and it’s leaders  More Laws and Rights being taken away: Intermarrying of Turks and Armenians forbidden Idea that the Armenians as a second class citizen becomes more prominent in society

 Property and goods of Armenians are seized  Looting and burning of neighborhoods and business  Armenian soldiers disarmed and kicked out of military  Armenian men forced into labor (before execution)  Armenian Leaders Executed  Women and Children forced to walk into the desert “Called Deportation” until they would drop dead  Men had to dig their own graves before being killed.

 Able Bodied men were shot or burned  Women and children died during “Deportation” (Death marches)  Armenians piled into caves fires lit so at the entrance so they would suffocate  Villages Burned  Children taken out to open water and thrown in to drown  Children were taken from school and gassed  Children killed under false pretenses by morphine overdose typhoid shots

 The Turkish government still denies that this was a Genocide Saying that it was merely civil war They were relocating a potentially dangerous people And that when people are marched into the desert tragic things happen

 Genocide is any acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, any national, ethnic, racial, or religious groups.  The killing of Armenians began April 24 th 1915  Between 1,000,000 and 1,500,000 Armenians were killed almost half the population.