Armenian Genocide

Systematic destruction of the Ottoman Armenian population by the Young Turk government, 1915–1923. Approximately 1–1.5 million Armenians were killed through massacre, deportation into the Syrian desert, engineered starvation, disease, and forced conversion. The paradigmatic twentieth-century case for the legal concept of genocide; recognised as such by most genocide scholars, more than thirty states, and the [[ruling:genocide-convention|UN Genocide Convention]] drafters who explicitly had it in mind. Officially denied by the Republic of Turkey.