By the Ottoman Empire in 1915 The genocide against Armenians was the greatest crime at the beginning of the 20th century. Armenians around the world mention the 110th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. The massacres of the Armenian population being implemented during the First World War in the Ottoman Empire are called the Armenian Genocide.
These massacres were carried out by the Young Turk government in different regions of the Ottoman Empire. The first international reaction to these events in 1915 The May 24 joint statement of the French, Russia's Russia's and GRANK, where the violence against the Armenian people was described as a "crime against humanity and civilization."
The parties considered the Turkish government responsible for the crime committed. During World War I, the Young Turk government adopted the policy of Pan-Turkism, which was aimed at maintaining the remnants of the Ottoman Empire. According to that policy, the Great Turkish Empire should have been set up to China, including all the Turkic-speaking peoples of the Caucasus, Central Asia. The program was planning to misleading all national minorities on that path.
According to 1948 The UN "Genocide Crime and Punishment for Punishment", such crimes are the attention of the international community and have no statute of limitations.
On the eve of World War I, more than 2 million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. 1915-1923 About 1.5 million Armenians were killed in the Turkish victims, the rest were either forcibly Muslims or took refuge in different countries of the world.
