The Armenian Genocide refers to the slaughter and fatal deportation of hundreds of thousands to over a million Armenians as well as intentional and irreversible ruination of their economic and cultural life environments during the government of the Young Turks from 1915 to 1917 in the Ottoman Empire.

It is now widely acknowledged to have been the first true genocide, and Western sources sometimes point to the sheer scale of the death toll as evidence for a systematic, organized plan to eliminate the Armenians. The event is also said to be the second-most studied case of genocide. To date twenty-one countries have officially recognized it as genocide.

While Turkey acknowledges that during World War I many Armenians died, it also states that Muslims died as well and that massacres were committed on both sides as a result of inter-ethnic violence and the wider conflict of World War I. The Turkish government also does not accept the deaths were the results of an intention from Ottoman authorities to eliminate Armenian people indiscriminately.

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We know that gifts are not required, but if you are looking for any gift ideas for our child, we have set up a few registries for you. We pretty much stick to the basics. We anticipate shopping locally for a lot our clothes.

View our Baby Gift Page for ideas.

Craigslist.org offers some great deals on baby items, though, because of the nature of Craig’s List, we didn’t list anything on our baby page for you to view.

Thank you in advance!

This is definitely enticing. We will need to read his books and do some additoinal research, but he sure is a great speaker (unlike our current president) and has made some great votes as a Senator.

http://www.barackobama.com/