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The Political Atmosphere Preceding the Genocide
Raymond Kévorkian
Dr. Kévorkian discusses the events that led to the Armenian Genocide.

The Political Atmosphere Preceding the Genocide
Historian Raymond Kévorkian describes the international context and political climate in the Ottoman Empire in the period leading up to the Armenian Genocide. A combination of factors that included various social and economic developments, the cultural renaissance of the Armenians just before WWI, their economic weight in the Ottoman Empire and finally their identity as Christian, non-Turkish people caught in a struggle for political power, resulted in the development of official policies mandating the deportation and extermination of Armenians from the Empire.
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