Genocide indicated by Armenians killed during the Ottoman genocide of Armenians in 1915; common throughout Armenia during the spring and summer of 1915.

　　Genocide shown with Armenians who were killed during the Armenian genocide by the Ottoman Empire in 1915. The photographic image was taken from Henry Morgenthau's 1918 book, "The Story of Ambassador Morgenthau." In the original text, he wrote: "People lying by the roadside. Such scenes were common throughout Armenia during the spring and summer of 1915. Death in its various forms - massacre, starvation, and exhaustion - destroyed a large part of the refugee population. Turkey's policy was extermination disguised as deportation." He explained.

　 Just prior to World War I, an estimated 2 million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire; between 1915 and 1923, about 1.5 million Armenians died. An additional approximately 1 million were displaced as refugees or Islamized abroad.On April 24, 1915, the first phase of the Armenian genocide broke out with the arrest and murder of nearly several hundred intellectuals, primarily in the Ottoman capital of Constantinople (now Istanbul, the capital of Turkey). Subsequently, Armenians around the world commemorate April 24 as Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.

　The second phase began with the drafting of some 60,000 Armenians into the Turkish army. The third phase of the genocide was the massacre, deportation, and death march of Armenian women, children, and elderly people in the Syrian desert. During the march, hundreds of thousands were killed by Turkish soldiers, military police, and Kurdish and Circassian mobs. They died of famine, epidemics, and exposure to wind and rain, and they died in despair. Thousands of women and children were raped. Tens of thousands were forcibly converted to Islam. The final stage of the Armenian Genocide was the total and complete denial by the Turkish government of the genocide and extermination of the Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire. While international recognition of the Armenian Genocide has been developing, the Turkish government has consistently resisted acceptance of the Armenian Genocide by all means, including falsification of historical facts, propaganda campaigns, and lobbying.

　The term genocide was coined in 1944 by Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin. It described the systematic murder, violence, and atrocities committed by the Nazis against the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915.On December 9, 1948, the United Nations approved the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The Convention defines genocide as an international crime and commits member states to prevent and punish it.