Armenia Quote by George H. W. Bush

One could reasonably argue that the Turkish pogrom against the Armenians during World War I qualifies as a crime against humanity, as does the…

— Sebastian Junger

It is generally not known in the world that, in the years preceding 1916, there was a concerted effort made to eliminate all the…

— Jimmy Carter

The Turkish Government began and ruthlessly carried out the infamous massacre and deportation of Armenians in Asia Minor. The clearance of the race from…

— Winston Churchill

When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations, they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race; they understood this…

— Henry Morgenthau, Sr

“the Armenian genocide of the First World War years, which represented an escalation in intensity, rather than a departure from previous tolerance. Although the…

— Philip Jenkins

In April, 1915, the Ottoman Government began to put into execution throughout Turkey a systematic and carefully-prepared plan to exterminate the Armenian race. In…

— Herbert Adams Gibbons

On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and…

— Eliot Engel

Whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out "under orders" from somewhere or…

— Hector Hugh Munro

The first genocide of the 21st century was against you, the Armenian people.

— Pope Francis

“In the same way, whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out "under…

— Saki

I became interested in genocide, because it happened so many times. It happened to the Armenians and after the Armenians, Hitler took action.

— Raphael Lemkin

Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity...After all, who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians?

— Adolf Hitler