During the late 19th century and early 20th century , the Armenians living in their ancestral lands which were then part of the Ottoman Empire were targeted for systematic extermination . From 1894 to 1896 , up to 300,000 Armenians were killed in the Hamidian massacres . From 1915 to 1923 , the Armenian Genocide took the lives of around 1.5 million Armenians , who were killed by the Ottoman government
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
White Genocide