The Genocide and It's Aftermath

➡️The Genocide ended in 1923.

➡️When Turkey surrendered, the Young Turks fled into Germany where they wouldn't be held accountable for the genocide.

➡️Ever since, the Turkish government denies that it was a genocide.

➡They claim that the Armenians were an enemy force and their slaughter was a necessary war measure.

➡️The survivors ended up in orphanages in Syria, Lebanon, and Greece.

➡️Many Armenians reached out to any relatives in other parts of the world.

➡️Some stayed in the Middle East and formed large communities in Syria and Iraq.

➡️Others went to Europe and North America.

➡️Canada and the U.S. had a Near East Relief Effort and poured in aid to the children of Syria and Lebanon

➡️Later on, a group of Armenian men formed Operation Nemesis, in which they went into Germany and assassinated the leaders of the Young Turks.