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The Armenian Genocide —also known as the Armenian Holocaust, the Armenian Massacres and, by Armenians, as the Great Crime —refers to the deliberate and systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I. It was implemented through wholesale massacres and deportations, with the deportations consisting of forced marches under conditions designed to lead to the death of the deportees. The total number of resulting Armenian deaths is generally held to have been between 1 million and 1.5 million. Other ethnic groups were similarly attacked by the Ottoman Empire during this period, including Assyrians and Greeks, and some scholars consider those events to be part of the same policy of extermination.

The starting date of the genocide is conventionally held to be April 24, 1915, the day when Ottoman authorities arrested some 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople. Thereafter, the Ottoman military uprooted Armenians from their homes and forced them to march for hundreds of miles, depriving them of food and water, to the desert of what is now Syria. Massacres were indiscriminate of age or gender, with rape and other sexual abuse commonplace. The majority of Armenian diaspora communities were founded as a result of the Armenian genocide.

The deportation of Armenian notables, aslo know as the Red Sunday (Կարմիր Կիրակի Karmir kiraki) refers to the night when leaders of the Armenian community of the Ottoman capital, Constantinople, and later other centers were arrested and moved to two holding centers near Ankara by the Minister of the Interior Mehmed Talaat Bey with his order of April 24, 1915. They were later deported, with the adoption of the Tehcir Law, on 29 May 1915. In the broader context of the Armenian Genocide, 24 April, Genocide Remembrance Day, commemorates the Armenian notables deported from the Ottoman capital in 1915, which was a precursor to the ensuing events.

Minister of the Interior Mehmed Talaat Bey gave the order on April 24, 1915. The operation commenced at 8 p.m. At Constantinople, the action was operated by Chief of Police of Constantinople Bedri Bey.

On the night of 24–25 April 1915, in a first wave 235 to 270 Armenian leaders of Constantinople, clergymen, physicians, editors, journalists, lawyers, teachers, politicians, etc. were arrested upon an instruction of the Ministry of the Interior.

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On 24 April 1915, on the orders of Ottoman authorities, hundreds of Armenian leaders were arrested in Istanbul. They were later deported, with the adoption of the Tehcir Law, on 29 May 1915. Thereafter, the Ottoman military uprooted Armenians from their homes and forced them to march for hundreds of miles, depriving them of food and water, to the desert of what is now Syria. These actions are commonly regarded to have resulted in the deaths of between 1 million and 1.5 million Armenian people,     in what has come to be known as the The Armenian Genocide.