Although it was possible for Armenians to achieve status and wealth in the Ottoman Empire , as a community they were never accorded more than " second-class citizen " status and were regarded as fundamentally alien to the Muslim character of Ottoman society . In 1895 , revolts among the Armenian subjects of the Ottoman Empire led to Sultan Abdül Hamid 's decision to massacre tens of thousands of Armenians in the Hamidian massacres
Hamidian massacres
Hamidian massacres
Anti-Armenian sentiment