The Armenian Genocide begins: Mehmed Talaat, Interior Minister of the Sunni (Arab for “legacy of Mohammad”) Moslem Ottoman Empire, orders the arrests of approximately 250 Orthodox Christian Armenian intellectuals, in Istanbul (Constantinople) and that they e forcibly deport them 330 miles to a remote region of Anatolia (the interior of Turkey proper).

       Postscript: During the next seven years 1,500,000 Armenians were systematically murdered by the ruling Ottoman Turks.  For over a hundred years the government of Turkey has refused to admit its culpability in the first holocaust of the twentieth century.

       NOTE: Christians (Armenian Orthodox), in the Sunni Moslem Ottoman Empire, were not allowed to own weapons for their own defense.

       [updated 6/11/2022]