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From which date is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day calculated?
On the night of 23-24 April 1915 about 250 Armenian community leaders, intellectuals, and clergy were arrested in Constantinople. Most were executed within weeks. Provincial deportations began the same month.
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The Ottoman Wartime Killing of Approximately One Million Armenian Civilians Between 1915 and 1916 by Forced March and Direct Execution The Ottoman government deported the Armenian population of eastern Anatolia eastward into the Syrian desert from April 1915. Approximately one million Armenians died in the marches, the concentration camps along the Euphrates, or in direct massacres. The killing was organised by the Ottoman Special Organisation under the cabinet of the Committee of Union and Progress. The Turkish Republic has not, as of 2026, formally acknowledged the killings as genocide.