Photo Gallery An Atrocity of the Ottoman Empire
The month of April marks the 95th anniversary of the start of the Armenian genocide. Controversy between Armenians and the Turkish government over how to characterize the atrocity has not abated.
Victims of the "Great Slaughter" in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, shown in a photo from 1919. Violence against Armenian centers in eastern regions of the dying Ottoman Empire spiked over the summer of 1915, beginning what historians consider to be the first genocide of the 20th century.
Foto: AP/ Armenian National Archives
Turkish activists collect in front of the Atatürk Mausoleum in Ankara to object to Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's candidacy in 2007. Erdogan's government strongly objects to the word "genocide," but he's flanked by nationalists on his right. Atatürk, who established Turkey as a modern republic after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, said "wrongs" had been committed by the earlier regime, but never went further than that.
Foto: epa Str/ picture-alliance/ dpa
