More than one million Armenians perished as the result of execution,
starvation, disease, the harsh environment, and physical abuse. A
people who lived in eastern Turkey for nearly 3,000 years [more than
double the amount of time the invading Islamic Turks had occupied
Anatolia, now known as “Turkey”] lost its homeland and was profoundly
decimated in the first large-scale genocide of the twentieth century.
At the beginning of 1915 there were some two million Armenians within
Turkey; today there are fewer than 60,000…. Despite the vast amount of
evidence that points to the historical reality of the Armenian Genocide,
eyewitness accounts, official archives, photographic evidence, the
reports of diplomats, and the testimony of survivors, denial of the
Armenian Genocide by successive regimes in Turkey has gone on from 1915
to the present.
