Event
Arrests of 24 April 1915
Ottoman authorities arrested Armenian community leaders in Constantinople; Armenians commemorate the day as the start of the deportations and killings.
- Dates
- 24 Apr 1915
- Place
- Istanbul
Connections 4
involved
- Ottoman Empire arrested the leaders Scholarship & press 1
- Henry Morgenthau Sr. cabled Washington three days later Primary record 2
part of
- Deportations and killings of Ottoman Armenians, 1915 to 1916 Scholarship & press 1
located in
Timeline 1 date
- 24 Apr 1915 Arrests of 24 April 1915
Proof 2 sources
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The Armenian Genocide (1915-16): In Depth, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Encyclopedia.
Scholarship & press
Ottoman authorities arrested 240 Armenian leaders in Constantinople on April 24, 1915, and deported them east.
This roundup is commemorated today by Armenians as the beginning of the genocide.
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1915, Supplement, document 1395: the Ambassador in Turkey (Morgenthau) to the Secretary of State, 27 April 1915, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 27 Apr 1915.
Primary record
Over hundred Armenians of better class were arrested ostensibly to prevent revolutionary propaganda.
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