Eastern Christians: Faith, Hopes and Traditions

1915: the genocide of Christians in Turkey (1x6)

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In 1915, at the initiative of the government of "young turks", the first genocide of the twentieth century unfolded. In the geographic territory of present-day Turkey, more than 2 million people have been murdered. 2/3 of the Armenian, Assyro-Chaldean, Syriac and Greek communities of Pontus have been dessimated.