Armenia Quote by Jimmy Carter

The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war.

— Theodore Roosevelt

We join Armenians around the world as we remember the terrible massacres suffered in 1915-1923 at the hands of the rulers of the Ottoman…

— George H. W. Bush

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

But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in…

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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

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

— Pope Francis

... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it ... the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The Armenian genocide was also a Holocaust, but it wasn't my Holocaust.

— Edgar Hilsenrath

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

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