The Armenian Genocide

The Armenian Genocide The Armenian Genocide Author: Nikolay Hovhannisyan The book elucidates the prerequisites and causes, political and national-racial motives, mechanisms and the scope of commission of the Armenian Genocide, as well as the issue of the responsibility of the Young Turks and their felonious leaders, who planned and brutally committed it. A considerable space is given to the explication of the policy of the European Great Powers in the Armenian Question. The author also dwelt on the issue of recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the international community and present-day Turkey. The Armenian Genocide (Hayots Tseghaspanutyun), also known as the Armenian Holocaust, the Armenian Massacres and, traditionally by Armenians, as Medz Yeghern ("Great Crime"), was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of its minority Armenian subjects from their historic homeland within the territory constituting the present-day Republic of Turkey. The starting date is convention