Tag Archive for Armenians

ATROCITY TALES EMERGE FROM PALESTINE

Turks Said to Deport Jews as They Did Armenians. Inaccurate Accounts Spread Around the World. Special to The Great War Project. (6 May) At around this time one hundred years ago, a story emerges from Palestine that will prove to be one of the most significant developments in the war. And it will be inaccurate…

BELGIAN OCCUPATION SPARKS WIDESPREAD RESISTANCE

The Mystery of the Green Ribbon Armenian Refugees Flood Mediterranean Ports, Fight Bravely. A Bomb in San Francisco Special to The Great War Project. (21-26 July) Since the first days of the war in August 1914, Germany has occupied most of Belgium Fighting, though, is not underway in Belgium. The Western Front is fought mostly…

ARMENIAN POPULATION OF TURKEY UNDER SIEGE

Orders to Kill Men, Deport Women and Children Turks Blame Armenians for Losses Special to The Great War Project (8-10 April) The beginning of an enormous tragedy strikes the Armenian community living in Turkey. “The Turks,” writes historian Martin Gilbert, “bitter at their losses of men and land, blamed the local Armenian population for cooperating…