The genocide of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire Stigmatize, destroy, exclude

During the First World War, the Union and Progress committee, a party-state with exclusive nationalism governing the Ottoman Empire, implemented the systematic destruction of its Armenian and Syriac subjects, thus breaking with the multi-ethnic imperial tradition.

The context of war constituted the necessary condition, conducive to these planned mass violence which was carried out in two stages: massacres of adult men and conscripts from April to October 1915, then deportation of women and children; gradual elimination of deportees in concentration camps established in the Syrian Desert and in Mesopotamia. Forbidden to return by the Kemalist republic, the survivors and their descendants today form a global diaspora.

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, the Shoah Memorial dedicated an exhibition to these events that foreshadow the mass killings that occurred during the 20th century, also highlighting the denial it continues to be subject to.

SEE THE EXHIBITION SITE