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Also Known As Armenian massacre of 1915
Date January 1915 - 1916
Location Ottoman Empire • Turkey
Context Balkan Wars • World War I • Young Turks • Hamidian massacres

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Enver Paşa
Enver Paşa
Ottoman general
Abdülhamid II
Abdülhamid II
Ottoman sultan
Talat Paşa
Talat Paşa
Turkish statesman