- Armenian massacres, 1915-1923, Armenians, Armenia (republic), biography, Turkey, history
On April 24, 1915, Grigoris Balakian was arrested along with some 250 other leaders of Constantinople’s Armenian community. It was the beginning of the Ottoman Empire’s systematic attempt to eliminate the Armenian people from Turkey—a campaign that continued through World War I and the fall of the empire.
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- Author
- Grigoris Balakian
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 576
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781400096770
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