Victims of the “Great Slaughter” in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, shown in a photo from 1919. Violence against Armenian centers in eastern regions of the dying Ottoman Empire spiked over the summer of 1915, beginning what historians consider to be the first genocide of the 20th century.
AP/ Armenian National Archives. Source: Der Spiegel.
Forside 1915 Victims of the "Great Slaughter" in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, shown in a photo from 1919. Violence against Armenian centers in eastern regions of the dying Ottoman Empire spiked over the summer of 1915, beginning what historians consider to be the first genocide of the 20th century. AP/ Armenian National Archives.