Armenian Genocide

The Armenian Genocide is a massive killing of the Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire throughout the 1890's and the critical time during World War I. But lets back up a little bit before this. In the 1880's, the Armenian Christain population in the Ottoman Empire grew to around 2.5 million. The Muslim Turkish rulers clashed with these Armenians and tensions grew between them. Turkish troops killed thousands of Armenians throughout the Ottoman Empire in the 1890's. Things really heated up between the two groups when World War I started in 1914. Armenians sided with the Turks' enemies especially Russia during WWI. During the war, the Turks deported 2 million Armenians and more than 600,000 died of starvation or were killed by Turkish soldiers.