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The '''Armenian Genocide''' was the [[massacre]] of [[Armenians]] in the [[Ottoman Empire]], especially the deaths of 1.5 million<ref>Armenians say 1.5 million.</ref><ref>http://www.history.com/topics/armenian-genocide</ref> Armenians from Anatolia during [[World War I]]. It was motivated by both, ethnic Turkish anti-Armenian racism<ref>Stephan H. Astourian, "Modern Turkish Identity and the Armenian Genocide: From Prejudice to Racist Nationalism. Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923," Museum-Institute of the Armenian Genocide, 2004. (28 pp)</ref> and Islamic anti-Christian intolerance, as a jihad.<ref>[https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/04/14/armenian-genocide-was-also-jihad/Aq1zTutJ73IJWRnlG8V6lN/story.html?outputType=amp The Armenian Genocide Was Also A Jihad], The Boston Globe, Apr 14, 2015.<blockquote>

The '''Armenian Genocide''' was the [[massacre]] of [[Armenians]] in the [[Ottoman Empire]], especially the deaths of 1.5 million<ref>Armenians say 1.5 million.</ref><ref>http://www.history.com/topics/armenian-genocide</ref> Armenians from Anatolia during [[World War I]].  

 

It was motivated by both, ethnic Turkish anti-Armenian racism<ref>Stephan H. Astourian, "Modern Turkish Identity and the Armenian Genocide: From Prejudice to Racist Nationalism. Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923," Museum-Institute of the Armenian Genocide, 2004. (28 pp)</ref> and Islamic anti-Christian intolerance, as a jihad.<ref>[https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/04/14/armenian-genocide-was-also-jihad/Aq1zTutJ73IJWRnlG8V6lN/story.html?outputType=amp The Armenian Genocide Was Also A Jihad], The Boston Globe, Apr 14, 2015.<blockquote>

Talaat Pasha, the powerful Ottoman interior minister during World War I, certainly didn’t disguise his objective. “The Government . . . has decided to destroy completely all the indicated [Armenians] persons living in Turkey,” he brusquely reminded officials in Aleppo in a September 1915 dispatch. “An end must be put to their existence . . . and no regard must be paid to either age or sex, or to conscientious scruples.”

Talaat Pasha, the powerful Ottoman interior minister during World War I, certainly didn’t disguise his objective. “The Government . . . has decided to destroy completely all the indicated [Armenians] persons living in Turkey,” he brusquely reminded officials in Aleppo in a September 1915 dispatch. “An end must be put to their existence . . . and no regard must be paid to either age or sex, or to conscientious scruples.”