Yes, the Young Turk regime (Committee of Union and Progress), which governed the Ottoman Empire in WWI, orchestrated the Armenian Genocide from 1915 onward through massacres, forced death marches, and starvation.
Historians estimate 1–1.5 million Armenians were killed. This is the scholarly consensus outside Turkey, recognized as genocide by numerous countries and institutions. Turkey disputes the term and figures.
@CP24 It’s funny, government officials only clean house when we have guests.. it’s like people who live in their own filth rather than a clean and healthy space.
The skull of Saint Gregory the Illuminator in the San Gregorio Armeno Monastery in Napoli, Italy.
In 301 AD, he converted Armenian King Tiridates III to Christianity, leading Armenia to become the first Christian nation in the world.
We don’t speak up enough for the oldest lineage of Christians: the Armenian Apostolic tradition, which constitutes the earliest national adoption of the faith as state religion in 301 AD and preserves an unbroken apostolic continuity from the patristic era.
The Armenian people’s centuries-long witness (through persecution, cultural erasure, and genocide) reminds us why primordial Christian lineages merit deliberate advocacy and preservation.
Today marks the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. As we honor the 1.5 million Armenians murdered by the Ottoman Empire across modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Armenia, we must refuse to let history repeat itself.
In 2020, the military forces of Azerbaijan and Turkey attacked the Armenian population in Nagorno-Karabakh. In 2023, Azerbaijan expelled over 100,000 Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, continuing the genocidal campaign that had begun over 100 years prior.
On this day of remembrance, we reaffirm the right of the Armenian people — and all people — to freedom, safety, and self-determination.