After George Hepworth , a preeminent journalist of the late 19th century , traveled through Ottoman Armenia in 1897 , he wrote '' Through Armenia on Horseback '' , which discusses the causes and effects of the recent massacres . In one chapter Hepworth describes the disparity between the reality of the Massacre in Bitlis and the official reports that were sent to the Porte . After retelling the Turkish version of events , which places the blame solely on the Armenians of Bitlis , Hepworth writes : Official Ottoman sources downplayed or misrepresented the death toll numbers . The attempt of deliberately misrepresenting the numbers were noted by British Ambassador Phillip Currie in a letter to Prime Minister Lord Salisbury : Some scholars , such as the Soviet historians Mkrtich G. Nersisyan , Ruben Sahakyan , and John Kirakosyan , and Yehuda Bauer subscribe to the view that the mass killings of 1894 – 96 were the first phase of the Armenian Genocide . Most scholars , however , limit this definition strictly to the years 1915 – 23
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Hamidian massacres