The outbreak of World War I led to confrontation between the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire in the Caucasus and Persian Campaigns . The new government in Istanbul began to look on the Armenians with distrust and suspicion , because the Imperial Russian Army contained a contingent of Armenian volunteers . On 24 April 1915 , Armenian intellectuals were arrested by Ottoman authorities and , with the Tehcir Law ( 29 May 1915 ) , eventually a large proportion of Armenians living in Anatolia perished in what has become known as the Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
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