During the First World War (1914-1918) the genocide of the Armenian people (1915 - 1923), the first of the 20th century, took place in the area of the former Ottoman empire, in Turkey. The Young Turks government, which took power in 1908, implemented the elimination of the Armenian ethnic group, present in the Anatolian area since the 7th century BC
From the estimate of historians, about two-thirds of Armenians, about 1,500,000 of people were killed. Many were the Islamized children and the women sent in the harems. The deportation and extermination of 1915 were preceded by the pogroms of 1894-96 wanted by the Sultan Abdul Hamid II and by those of 1909 implemented by the Young Turks government.
The genocide of the Armenians can be considered the prototype of the genocides of the 20th century. The goal was to resolve the issue of the Armenians, a Christian population that looked to the West, at the root.
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