What Are The Causes Of The Armenian Genocide?

This source is an article from www.armenian-genocide.org that I found on the database Opposing Viewpoints in Context. In April 1915 the Ottoman government embarked upon the systematic decimation of its civilian Armenian population. The persecution continued with varying intensity until 1923 when the Ottoman Empire ceased to exist and was replaced by the Republic of Turkey. The Armenian population of the Ottoman state was reported at about two million in 1915. An estimated one million had perished by 1918, while hundreds of thousands had become homeless and stateless refugees. By 1923 virtually the entire Armenian population of Anatolian Turkey had disappeared. This article goes into the causes of the genocide and the events of the genocide.