Ottomans Stunned at Fall of Erzurum on Caucasus Front; Relentless Turkish Siege of British at Kut . Special to The Great War Project. (16-19 February) In the Mesopotamian [Iraqi] desert, the Turks tighten their deadly noose around the small and increasingly hungry British and Indian troops at Kut. In mid-February 1916, precisely a century ago,…
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MURDER OF ARMENIANS ‘WELL PLANNED AND ORCHESTRATED’
by Mike Shuster
The Gruesome Details; Thousands of Cultural Leaders Killed An Armenian Day of Mourning Special to The Great War Project (23-24 April) On April 24th one hundred years ago to the day, the head of the Armenian Church in the Ottoman Empire appeals to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson to intervene in the slaughter of Turkey’s Armenian…