![]() On his return to Istanbul, Ottoman General Enver Pasha publicly blamed his defeat on Armenians, who were supposedly collaborating with the enemy. Things came to a boil after the Ottoman defeat against the Russians in the Battle of Sarikamish in the early stages of World War I. As the Ottoman Empire crumbled in the decades leading up to WW1, suspicion against the Armenians grew and brutal action was taken against those who protested against the empire. Over the years the region shifted hands among its neighboring empires, and in the 15th Century was occupied by the Ottomans making them a small religious minority in an Empire ruled by the Muslims. ![]() ![]() The Armenians had inhabited the Caucasus region of Eurasia for close to 3 millennia having taken up the Christian faith in the 4th Century AD. ![]()
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