They never did. The turks to this day deny its happening and as of yet the turks have not addmitted to the murder of more than a million armenians
In the Ottoman empire.
The Armenians
There is confusion here.The Armenians (about 1.2 million of them) were killed in 1915-1917 by the Ottoman Turks. Their killing had nothing to do with Hitler.In late August 1939, shortly before the start of World War 2, Hitler mentioned the massacres of the Armenians, adding that nobody had cared or done anything about it, possibly implying the he could get away with doing something similar.
1896
No.Well, I know this is sad but no outside countries really did anything for Armenians when they were being slaughtered for no reason. That's why 1.5 million of them are dead. And, the outside countries were the ones who were killing them! It happened during World War 1 so while this was happening to the Armenians, everyone was mainly focused on the war. The Turks picked a perfect time to do this.
Armenians.
1915. Also note that the Ottoman Turks had been massacring Armenians for many decades before the actual Armenian Genocide occurred. It is said that up to 3,000,000 Armenians were killed at the hands of Ottoman Turks during the Ottoman Empires orders to eliminate all Armenians from the Earth.
The Young Turks, led by Mehmet Talaat Pasha, Ismail Enver Pasha, and Ahmed Djemal Pasha led the genocide of over 1.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. The majority were killed by Ottoman soldiers, Turkish Irregulars, and Kurdish Irregulars.
The Armenians, of whom between 600,000 and 1,8 million were systematically killed. The Turks themselves however maintain that this was an unfortunate case of ethnic violence and that death figures of Armenians are exaggerated, but among scholars there is very little doubt that the killings were well-organized by the Ottoman government.
1.5 million Armenians were Massacred in the Ottoman Empire by Turkish soliders led by a group called the Young Turks. The Young Turk party was led by three brothers, Talaat Pasha, Jemal Pasha, and Enver Pasha. They want ed to create a Pan-Turkic Empire. The marched the Armenians through dessserts on Death Marches, raped young women, shot them, burned them alive, starved them, and even bayonetted pregnant mothers. Turky denies it's occurence to this day.
Armenians