The Toll

Today is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.

(Map of the Armenian Genocide in Turkey.)

The Turks murdered 1.5 Million Armenian Men, Women and Children from 1915 to 1922.

The Turks murdered them by drowning people in rivers, throwing them off cliffs, crucifying them, on Death Marches and by burning them alive.

The Turks also kidnapped 100,000 Armenian Children forcing them to convert to Islam and giving them to Turkish Families.

The Turks forced 100,000 Armenian Women to convert to Islam and marry Turkish Men or be killed.

The homes and property of the Armenians were given to Turks.

The Armenian Genocide erased Armenian Culture and Life that had been in Turkey for 2,000 years.

The Turks consider the Genocide necessary and justified to establish a Turkish Nation-State.

It continues to be illegal, in Turkey, to call the murder of the 1.5 Million Armenians in Turkey a Genocide (as it does in Pakistan and Azerbaijan.)

Countries and Organizations around the World officially call the murder of the Armenians by the Turks a Genocide:

The Catholic Church (in 2015), The International Association of Genocide Scholars (in 1997), The European Parliament (in 2015), The Council of Europe (in 2001), The  Union for Reform Judaism (in 1989), The Central Council of Jews in Germany (2015), The Mercosur Parliament, the Latin American Parliament.

Argentina (in 1993), Armenia (in 1988), Austria (in 2015), Belgium (in 1998), Bolivia (in 2014), Brazil (in 2015), Bulgaria (in 2015), Canada (in 1996), Chile (in 2007), Cyprus (1975), the Czech Republic (in 2017), France (in 1998). Germany (in 2005), Greece (in 1996), Italy (in 2000), Latvia (in 2021), Libya (in 2019), Lithuania (in 2005), Lebanon (in 1997), Luxembourg (in 2015), Mexico (in 2023), The Netherlands (in 2004), Paraguay (in 2015), Poland (in 2005), Portugal (in 2019), Russia (in 1995), Slovakia (in 2004), Sweden (in 2010), Switzerland (in 2003), Syria (in 2015), The United States (in 2021), Uruguay (in 1965), the Vatican (in 2000) and Venezuela (in 2005.)

Parts of these Countries Recognize the Armenian Genocide:

Australia (New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania), Belgium (Flanders), Brazil (Ceara, Parana, Rio de Janeiro, and Sao Paulo), Canada (Alberta, British Colombia, Ontario and Quebec), France (Corsica), Iran (Tehran), The Philippines (Manila), Spain (Aragon, Balearic Islands, Basque Country, Catalonia, Navarre, La Rioja), The United Arab Emirates (Aby Dhabi) , The United Kingdom (Scotland and Wales), All 50 US States and DC.