Why Did The Disappearance Of The Ottoman Empire?

The Ottoman empire began to suffer its first losses in the first world war as the Young Turks directly transmitted coded telegrams mandating the annihilation of the Armenian people. On the evening of April 24, 1915, and began schematically rounding up and as many as 300 Armenian intellectuals—political leaders, writer, educators, and religious leader in Constantinople—were violently taken from their homes, tortured, then hung or shot.

The death marches lasted months, covered hundreds of miles, and killed roughly one million Armenians. In order to keep the caravans away from Turkish villages and prolong marches, indirect routes were deliberately chosen.

In the wake of the disappearance of the Armenian population, Muslim Turks took ownership