Late Ottoman genocides

The late Ottoman genocides refer to the three genocides committed by members of the Ottoman Empire's Muslim ruling class during and after World War I,[1] when the empire was allied with Bulgaria, Germany, and Austria-Hungary.[1] The three genocides are as follows:

The mother and her child are genocide survivors fleeing the devastation of their homeland.
Armenians murdered by Turks, thrown together in a heap.
Greek Orthodox priest looks at his massacred flock. Photo from the archives of the German Deutsche Bank, which was working in the region financing a railway network when the killings began. Asia Minor, 1916.
Monument in Berlin to the victims of Ottoman genocides of 1912–22. It names "Armenians", "Greeks of Asia Minor, Pontus and East Thrace" and "Aramaeans (Syriacs/Assyrian/Chaldeans)."

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References

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    • Schaller, Dominik J.. Late Ottoman genocides: the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and Young Turkish population and extermination policies—introduction. Journal of Genocide Research 10 (1) (2008). p. 7–14. doi:10.1080/14623520801950820.
    • Late Ottoman Genocides: The dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and Young Turkish population and extermination policies (in en) (2013)Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-99045-1.
    • Shirinian, George N.. Genocide in the Ottoman Empire: Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, 1913–1923 (in en) (2017)Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78533-433-7.
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