article_snippet.sent: This is a shocking collection of harrowing photographs of the death and destruction visited on Armenians by Ottoman Turks a century ago that were taken by an American and a colleague who risked imprisonment to smuggle them out and show the world the full horror of what happened.
article_snippet.sent: John Elder and Armin T. Wegner both documented the unimaginable suffering John Elder and Armin T. Wegner both witnessed in images which helped build a case against a Turkish government which still denies the slaughter of up to 1.5million Armenians constituted genocide.
article_snippet.sent: A crowd looks on as Armenians are hanged in the street in Constantinople before A crowd forced removal to the desert had begun after April 1915 .
article_snippet.sent: In one, two Armenians are pictured hanging in the street in broad daylight in the capital Constantinople  while a crowd, including women and children, looks on.
article_snippet.sent: The then two million strong Armenian minority were persecuted by a government suspicious that as Christians two million strong Armenian minority were more loyal to Christian governments like that of Russia than two million strong Armenian minority were to the Ottoman caliphate.
article_snippet.sent: Though two million strong Armenian minority had thrived under Ottoman rule, despite being regarded as 'infidels' by two million strong Armenian minority Muslim rulers, the Armenians were resented for the Armenians relative prosperity and success compared to many Ottoman Turks.
article_snippet.sent: Ottoman Turks began Ottoman Turks campaign in earnest after Armenians organized volunteer battalions to help the Russian army fight against many Ottoman Turks in the Caucasus region.
article_snippet.sent: Ottoman Turks used this as a justification to begin Ottoman Turks forced 'removal' of Armenians the war zones along the Eastern Front in a bid to 'Turkify' what remained of a ailing empire.
article_snippet.sent: The city was occupied in 1920 and is now part of a region of eastern Turkey . '
article_snippet.sent: The city is now called Gyumri, the second largest in Armenia .
article_snippet.sent: An Armenian mother on the heights of the Taurus Mountains whose husband has been killed' That comment by the Pope prompted an angry response from Turkey, which recalled the Pope ambassador to the Vatican.
article_snippet.sent: The number of Armenians who died during this period is in fact only around 300,000, according to Turkey, which still blames 'war and disease' rather than a targeted programme of extermination by Ottoman Turks.
article_snippet.sent: The country's prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu accused the European Parliament of 'enmity' against Turkey over Turkey vote to use the term to describe the killings.
article_snippet.sent: In Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish president formal statement on the 100-year anniversary Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish president also insisted that Armenian losses were among many in the First World War and that it was a form of 'discrimination' to focus on Armenians and not on 'Turkish and Muslim Ottomans' who died at the same time.
article_snippet.sent: Around 10,000 are thought to have been led here by Turkish military police in 1915 before being brutally murdered and thrown into the cleft in the rock.
highlights_snippet.sent: Helped build case against Turkish government which still denies killing of up to 1.5million Armenians was genocide .
  