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{{Short description|1915–1917 mass murder in the Ottoman Empire}}
For a couple years since its inception, the irony community had become a place for many members, usually those being relatively sane and normal people. Many of these members were quite young; most communities had a median age of 15 to 14 years at this point. It was understandable in all honesty: memes, reddit, it all attracts youngsters. But some wanted to use their staff power to exploit that for their own terrible pedophilic desires, and this had already happened before. Constant groomers, pedophiles and so on. There would not be many people that would want to clean this up, besides one well-known member of the community, known as [[Doctor Penez]]. Noone would do anything significant for around three years of the Ironysphere's existence, besides Penez. Who on July 10th on his personal discord server would announce that he would start exposing every pedophile within the sphere, [[Dogelore]], [[Whenthe]], [[OkBuddyRetard]], any every single irony meme server, and any other discord server that had strong proof of being infested by pedophilia.
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{{Infobox civilian attack
| title      = Armenian genocide
| partof      = [[World War&nbsp;I]]  
| image      = Column of deportees walking through Harput vilayet during the Armenian genocide.jpg
| image_size  =
| alt        = see caption
| caption    = Column of Armenian deportees guarded by [[gendarme]]s in [[Mamuret-ul-Aziz vilayet|Harput vilayet]]
| location    = [[Ottoman Empire]]
| coordinates =
| date        = 1915–1917{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=245, 330}}{{sfn|Bozarslan et al.|2015|p=187}}
| type        = [[Genocide]], [[death march]], [[Forced conversion|forced Islamization]]
|target      = [[Armenians in the Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Armenians]]
| fatalities  = [[Casualties of the Armenian genocide|600,000–1.5 million]]{{sfn|Morris|Ze'evi|2019|p=1}}
| perps      = [[Committee of Union and Progress]]
{{Infobox|child=yes
| label1      = Trials
| data1      = [[Istanbul trials of 1919–1920|Ottoman Special Military Tribunal]]}}
|}}


The '''Armenian genocide'''{{efn|Also known by [[terminology of the Armenian genocide|other names]].|name=names}} was the systematic destruction of the [[Armenians in the Ottoman Empire|Armenian people and identity]] in the [[Ottoman Empire]] during [[World War&nbsp;I]]. Spearheaded by the ruling [[Committee of Union and Progress]] (CUP), it was implemented primarily through the mass murder of around one million Armenians during [[death march]]es to the [[Syrian Desert]] and the [[Forced conversion|forced Islamization]] of others, primarily women and children.
Every single discord server would have to be cleansed off the evil internet groomers. He would ask members of his community to help with this channel, and to dm him any proof that a member, or staff member of the Ironysphere was a pedophile or groomer. Thus, it all began, some would think that this was a bluff and went about their business. However, on July 11th it would truly occur. It was time for the great 2020 expose to begin. Hundreds would join Penez's livestream to see everything unfold...


Before World War I, Armenians occupied a somewhat protected, but subordinate, place in Ottoman society. Large-scale massacres of Armenians had occurred [[Hamidian massacres|in the 1890s]] and [[Adana massacre|1909]]. The Ottoman Empire suffered a series of military defeats and territorial losses—especially during the 1912–1913 [[Balkan Wars]]—leading to fear among CUP leaders that the Armenians would seek independence. During their invasion of [[Caucasus campaign|Russian]] and [[Persian campaign (World War I)|Persian]] territory in 1914, [[Special Organization (Ottoman Empire)|Ottoman paramilitaries]] massacred local Armenians. Ottoman leaders took isolated instances of [[Armenian resistance]] as evidence of a widespread rebellion, though no such rebellion existed. Mass deportation was intended to permanently forestall the possibility of Armenian autonomy or independence.
==Target One - Mason==
[[File:Pedoscreenshotmason.png|thumb|657x657px|Truly a man of Our Generation.]]
The first target of the expose was [[Mason]], a former OkBR2 staff member. Mason was not a subreddit staff member, he was not even very interested with the subreddit itself. In fact, he was a "discord mod for hire (by that I mean for free lol)." But as the OKBR2/ Whenthe staff would find out, nothing is EVER for free, and that Mason was in fact spending his life being a discord janitor for the sole purpose of GROOMING and PEDOPHILIA. Mason would be previously banned on different discord servers for "multiple accounts of the defense of Loli Porn, multiple attempts to solicit nudes from random girls, odd comments aimed at girls younger than him, and making other people extremely uncomfortable.
Mason would be banned off every single discord server, including [[Whenthe]] (old OkBR2). However, this expose was not enough to fully get rid of him, his account is still up, and he would be spotted in [[Irony Hub]] around two years ago. He would quickly leave after joining though.


On 24&nbsp;April 1915, the Ottoman authorities [[Deportation of Armenian intellectuals on 24 April 1915|arrested and deported]] hundreds of Armenian intellectuals and leaders from [[Istanbul|Constantinople]]. At the orders of [[Talaat Pasha]], an estimated 800,000 to 1.2&nbsp;million Armenians were sent on death marches to the Syrian Desert in 1915 and 1916. Driven forward by paramilitary escorts, the deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to robbery, [[Rape during the Armenian genocide|rape]], and massacres. In the Syrian Desert, the survivors were dispersed into [[internment|concentration camps]]. In 1916, another wave of massacres was ordered, leaving about 200,000 deportees alive by the end of the year. Around 100,000 to 200,000 Armenian women and children were forcibly converted to Islam and integrated into Muslim households. Massacres and [[ethnic cleansing]] of Armenian survivors continued through the [[Turkish War of Independence]] after World War&nbsp;I, carried out by [[Turkish National Movement|Turkish nationalists]].
==Target Two - HHH==


This genocide put an end to more than two thousand years of Armenian civilization in [[Eastern Anatolia Region|eastern Anatolia]]. Together with the mass murder and expulsion of [[Sayfo|Assyrian/Syriac]] and [[Greek genocide|Greek Orthodox]] Christians, it enabled the creation of an [[ethnonationalist]] [[Turkish people|Turkish]] state, the [[Republic of Turkey]]. The Turkish government maintains that the deportation of Armenians was a legitimate action that [[Armenian genocide denial|cannot be described as genocide]]. As of 2023, 34 countries have [[Armenian genocide recognition|recognized the events as genocide]], which is also the academic consensus.
The second victim of this expose would be [[Hhh]]. When this expose was happening, Hhh was still the owner of [[Dogelore]]; he would be made the owner of Dogelore after the events of [[The Dogelore Civil War]]. Hhh did not care much about the server and would barely contribute. Hhh would be exposed with leaked snapchat, and discord screenshots.
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After these screenshots were shown to the entirety of the Ironysphere, Hhh was forced to resign and leave Dogelore forever. He would be mass reported and tried rejoining the server on one occasion, but as of now it seems he is fully gone.
===Gallery===
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File:Hhhh.png|Wholesome Comment
File:Hhh42.png|Snapchat Screenshot #1
File:Hhh56.png|Snapchat Screenshot #2
File:The Game.png|"The Game"
File:Dogelore Groomer.png|"Also the owner posted nudes of himself in mod chat"
File:Dogelore Pedos.png|Ignoring Pedo Reports
File:Sureee its def a joke lmao.png|Cock Pic (DO NOT RESEARCH)
</gallery>
[[File:Jbwafflezwholesome.png|thumb|Wholesome JB Waffle Moment!]]


== Background ==
==Target Three - JB==
{{further|Causes of the Armenian genocide}}


=== Armenians in the Ottoman Empire ===
The [[JB-Wafflez Fiasco]] is a known event in the Whenthe community as it was somewhat major and led to [[SquidPlumber]] resigning and them losing hope in the server. It all began with the leaked screenshots of JB and Waffle E-sexting each other and doing other weird things being sent to Penez. JB would become an unregistered sex offender at the age of 17, asking his 15 year old "friend" for his nudes. This would end up with Doctor Penez (whom JB unironically hated for no reason other than everyone else hating him) exposing him for his crimes. According to some unreliable sources, his face would also end up being leaked and he "committed suicide (for those new to the internet, logging off for 2 weeks is considered self-deletion for the terminally online)".
{{main|Armenians in the Ottoman Empire}}
This again would lead to [[SquidPlumber]] resigning and giving their ownership to [[Thee_Realist]].  
[[File:Armenian population map 1896.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Armenian population map published in 1896]]
The presence of [[Armenians]] in [[Anatolia]] has been documented since the [[sixth century BCE]], about 1,500 years before [[Turkic migration|the arrival of Turkmens]] under the [[Seljuk dynasty]].{{sfn|Ahmed|2006|p=1576}}{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=xiv}} The [[Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity)|Kingdom of Armenia]] [[Arsacid dynasty of Armenia#Christianization|adopted Christianity]] as its national religion in the [[fourth century CE]], establishing the [[Armenian Apostolic Church]].{{sfn|Payaslian|2007|pp=34–35}} Following the end of the [[Byzantine Empire]] in 1453, two Islamic empires—the [[Ottoman Empire]] and the Iranian [[Safavid Empire]]—contested [[Western Armenia]], which was permanently separated from [[Eastern Armenia]] (held by the Safavids) by the 1639 [[Treaty of Zuhab]].{{sfn|Payaslian|2007|pp=105–106}} The Ottoman Empire was multiethnic and multireligious,{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=11, 15}} and its [[millet system]] offered non-Muslims a subordinate but protected place in society.{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=12}} [[Sharia law]] encoded Islamic superiority but guaranteed property rights and freedom of worship to non-Muslims (''[[dhimmis]]'') in exchange for [[Jizya|a special tax]].{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=5, 7}}


On the eve of [[World War&nbsp;I]] in 1914, around two million Armenians lived in Anatolia out of a total population of 15–17.5 million.{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=xviii}} According to the [[Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople|Armenian Patriarchate]]'s estimates for 1913–1914, there were 2,925 Armenian towns and villages in the Ottoman Empire, of which 2,084 were in the [[Armenian highlands]] in the [[vilayet]]s of [[Bitlis Vilayet|Bitlis]], [[Diyarbekir Vilayet|Diyarbekir]], [[Erzurum Vilayet|Erzerum]], [[Mamuret-ul-Aziz Vilayet|Harput]], and [[Van Vilayet|Van]].{{sfn|Kévorkian|2011|p=279}} Armenians were a minority in most places where they lived, alongside [[Turkish people|Turkish]] and [[Kurds|Kurdish]] Muslim and [[Rum millet|Greek Orthodox Christian]] neighbors.{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=xviii}}{{sfn|Kévorkian|2011|p=279}} According to the Patriarchate's figure, 215,131 Armenians lived in urban areas, especially [[Istanbul|Constantinople]], [[Smyrna]], and [[Eastern Thrace]].{{sfn|Kévorkian|2011|p=279}} Although most Ottoman Armenians were peasant farmers, they were overrepresented in commerce. As [[middleman minorities]], despite the wealth of some Armenians, their overall political power was low, making them especially vulnerable.{{sfn|Bloxham|2005|pp=8–9}}
==Target Four - Miarasu / Gentle Criminal==
[[File:Thisisnotgoodbehaviorontheinternet.png|thumb|483x483px|Porn Addiction]]
The fourth victim of the Penez Expose would be Miarasu, a furry porn addict. Unlike many people his age, Miarasu or "Gentle Criminal" would live to half his name and begin grooming little children and become a sex offender before the age of eighteen! On one occasion he would go into an innocent users' direct messages and ask them "if they know how to masturbate." He would also send loli porn into random people's DMs. According to some people around him, Miarasu also had an obsession with an electric Pokémon called "Shinx". Which pretty much looks like some sort of cub. There was also a screenshot in which he sent a shinx sucking on another Pokémon's MASSIVE penis. According to some of his close friends he was also playing Minecraft with a seven-year-old girl for no reason at all; he sent her gay loli pornography in her DMs and proceeded to brag about it.
This manmade creation of derangement, porn addiction, discord addiction, and every single weird thing on the internet would also end up being doxxed and all of his internet degeneracy would be emailed to his mother. His account was promptly deleted, and he has not been heard from since.


=== Land conflict and reforms ===
===Gallery===
[[File:Looting of an Armenian village by the Kurds.png|thumb|left|"Looting of an Armenian village by the Kurds", 1898 or 1899|alt=Column of people and domestic animals carrying bundles]]
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Armenians in the eastern provinces lived in semi-[[feudalism|feudal]] conditions and commonly encountered [[forced labor]], [[Taxation in the Ottoman Empire|illegal taxation]], and unpunished crimes against them including robberies, murders, and sexual assaults.{{sfn|Astourian|2011|p=60}}{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=19}} Beginning in 1839, the Ottoman government issued [[Tanzimat|a series of reforms]] to centralize power and equalize the status of Ottoman subjects regardless of religion. The reforms to equalize the status of non-Muslims were strongly opposed by Islamic clergy and Muslims in general, and remained mostly theoretical.{{sfn|Kévorkian|2011|p=9}}{{sfn|Kieser|2018|pp=8, 40}}{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=26–27}} Because of the abolition of the [[Kurdish emirates]] in the mid-nineteenth century, the Ottoman government began to directly tax Armenian peasants who had previously paid taxes only to Kurdish landlords. The latter continued to exact levies illegally.{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=19, 53}}{{sfn|Astourian|2011|pp=60, 63}}
File:Groomer1.png|Screenshot #1
File:Groomer2.png|Screenshot #2
File:Groomer3.png|Screenshot #3
File:Groomer4.png|Screenshot #4
File:Groomer5.png|Screenshot #5
</gallery>
[[File:DkaihHuh.png|thumb|Would you consider this a rightful action?]]


From the mid-nineteenth century, Armenians faced large-scale [[land usurpation]] as a consequence of the [[sedentarization of Kurdish tribes]] and the arrival of [[muhacir|Muslim refugees]] and immigrants (mainly [[Circassians]]) following the [[Russo-Circassian War]].{{sfn|Astourian|2011|pp=56, 60}}{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=19, 21}}{{sfn|Göçek|2015|p=123}} In 1876, when Sultan [[Abdul Hamid&nbsp;II]] came to power, the state began to confiscate Armenian-owned land in the eastern provinces and give it to Muslim immigrants as part of a systematic policy to reduce the Armenian population of these areas. This policy lasted until World War I.{{sfn|Astourian|2011|pp=62, 65}}{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=55}} These conditions led to a substantial decline in the population of the Armenian highlands; 300,000 Armenians left the empire, and others moved to towns.{{sfn|Kévorkian|2011|p=271}}{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=54–56}} Some Armenians joined [[Armenian national liberation movement|revolutionary political parties]], of which the most influential was the [[Armenian Revolutionary Federation]] (ARF), founded in 1890. These parties primarily sought reform within the empire and found only limited support from Ottoman Armenians.{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=87–88}}
==Target Five - Dkaih==


Russia's decisive victory in the [[Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)|1877–1878 war]] forced the Ottoman Empire to cede parts of eastern Anatolia, the [[Rumelia Eyalet|Balkans]], and [[Ottoman Cyprus|Cyprus]].{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=94–95, 105}} Under international pressure at the 1878 [[Congress of Berlin]], the [[Ottoman government]] agreed to carry out reforms and guarantee the physical safety of its Armenian subjects, but there was no enforcement mechanism;{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=95–96}} conditions continued to worsen.{{sfn|Astourian|2011|p=64}}{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=97}} The Congress of Berlin marked the emergence of the [[Armenian question]] in international diplomacy as Armenians were for the first time used by the [[International relations of the Great Powers (1814–1919)|Great Powers]] to interfere in Ottoman politics.{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=96}} Although Armenians had been called the "loyal millet" in contrast to Greeks and others who had previously challenged Ottoman rule, the authorities began to perceive Armenians as a threat after 1878.{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=48–49}} In 1891, Abdul Hamid created the [[Hamidiye (cavalry)|''Hamidiye'' regiments]] from Kurdish tribes, allowing them to act with impunity against Armenians.{{sfn|Kévorkian|2011|pp=75–76}}{{sfn|Astourian|2011|p=64}} From 1895 to 1896 the empire saw [[Hamidian massacres|widespread massacres]]; at least 100,000 Armenians were killed{{sfn|Kévorkian|2011|pp=11, 65}}{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=129}} primarily by Ottoman soldiers and mobs let loose by the authorities.{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=129–130}} Many Armenian villages were forcibly converted to Islam.{{sfn|Kévorkian|2011|p=271}} The Ottoman state bore ultimate responsibility for the killings,{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=130}}{{sfn|Kévorkian|2011|p=11}} whose purpose was violently restoring the previous social order in which Christians would unquestioningly accept Muslim supremacy,{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=131}} and forcing Armenians to emigrate, thereby decreasing their numbers.{{sfn|Kévorkian|2011|p=266}}
Dkaih35, the founder of [[Irony Hub]]. Beloved by many, but also Penez's main enemy. However, Dkaih had a few issues. He was caught expressing his lust for a 17-year-old anime femboy, and his second problem was that he was caught "rubbing his balls" onto a livestream in front of mostly minor [[Irony Hub]] admins whilst discussing the server's next plan of action... All it takes to ruin someone's internet discord career is one ball rub on a livestream... After this incident Dkaih was forced to resign and delete all his social media, although he would eventually rejoin Irony Hub, become a admin, and delete half the server before being FIRED.


=== Young Turk Revolution ===
==Target Six - Onyx==
{{Main|Young Turk Revolution}}
Abdul Hamid's despotism prompted the formation of an opposition movement, the [[Young Turks]], which sought to overthrow him and restore the 1876 [[Constitution of the Ottoman Empire]], which he had suspended in 1877.{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=92–93, 99, 139–140}} One faction of the Young Turks was the secret and revolutionary [[Committee of Union and Progress]] (CUP), based in [[Salonica]], from which the charismatic conspirator [[Mehmed Talaat]] (later Talaat Pasha) emerged as a leading member.{{sfn|Kieser|2018|pp=46–47}} Although skeptical of a growing, exclusionary [[Turkish nationalism]] in the Young Turk movement, the ARF decided to ally with the CUP in December 1907.{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=152–153}}{{sfn|Kieser|2018|p=50}} In 1908, the CUP came to power in the [[Young Turk Revolution]], which began with a string of CUP assassinations of leading officials in [[Macedonia (region)|Macedonia]].{{sfn|Kieser|2018|pp=53–54}}{{sfn|Göçek|2015|p=192}} Abdul Hamid was forced to reinstate the 1876 constitution and restore the [[General Assembly of the Ottoman Empire|parliament]], which was celebrated by Ottomans of all ethnicities and religions.{{sfn|Kieser|2018|pp=54–55}}{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=154–156}} Security improved in parts of the eastern provinces after 1908 and the CUP took steps to reform the local [[Ottoman Gendarmerie|gendarmerie]],{{sfn|Kaligian|2017|pp=89–91}} although tensions remained high.{{sfn|Kaligian|2017|pp=82–84}} Despite an agreement to reverse the land usurpation of the previous decades in the 1910 Salonica Accord between the ARF and the CUP, the latter made no efforts to carry this out.{{sfn|Kaligian|2017|pp=86–92}}{{sfn|Astourian|2011|p=66}}


[[File:AdanaChristianQuarter.jpg|thumb|The Armenian quarter of [[Adana]] after the [[Adana massacre|1909 massacres]]|alt=Destroyed cityscape with ruined buildings and rubble in the street]]
When the expose was happening, one of the moderators of [[Dogelore]] called [[Onyx]] would also be exposed together with Hhh, they really would just be exposed for many weird comments towards a few users and weird e-sex roleplay messages. Onyx was also caught lusting over minors, and was FIRED for continuing the old discord tradition of GROOMING children online.
In early 1909 [[31 March Incident|an unsuccessful countercoup]] was launched by conservatives and some liberals who opposed the CUP's increasingly repressive governance.{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=165–166}} When news of the countercoup reached [[Adana]], armed Muslims attacked the Armenian quarter and Armenians returned fire. Ottoman soldiers did not protect Armenians and instead armed the rioters.{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=168–169}} Between 20,000 and 25,000 people, mostly Armenians, were [[Adana massacre|killed in Adana]] and nearby towns.{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=171}} Unlike the 1890s massacres, the events were not organized by the central government but instigated by local officials, intellectuals, and Islamic clerics, including CUP supporters in Adana.{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=172}} Although the massacres went unpunished, the ARF continued to hope that reforms to improve security and restore lands were forthcoming, until late 1912, when they broke with the CUP and appealed to the European powers.{{sfn|Kieser|2018|pp=152–153}}{{sfn|Astourian|2011|pp=66–67}}{{sfn|Kaligian|2017|p=92}} On 8&nbsp;February 1914, the CUP reluctantly agreed to [[1914 Armenian reforms|reforms]] brokered by [[German Empire|Germany]] that provided for the appointment of two European inspectors for the entire Ottoman east and putting the Hamidiye regiments in reserve. CUP leaders feared that these reforms, which were never implemented, could lead to partition and cited them as a reason for the elimination of the Armenian population in 1915.{{sfn|Kieser|2018|pp=163–164}}{{sfn|Akçam|2019|pp=461–462}}{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=203, 359}}
===Gallery===
<gallery>
File:onyx1.png|Screenshot #1
File:onyx2.png|Screenshot #2
File:onyx3.png|Screenshot #3
File:onyx4.png|Screenshot #4
</gallery>
[[File:Pedogroomercreep.png|thumb|301x301px|Imagine another pedophile being horrified about your behavior. Or maybe it's just another case of getting rid of the competition?]]


===Balkan Wars===
==Target Seven - Tsumugi (35 Years old)==
{{Main|Balkan Wars}}
[[File:Phocaea massacre Sartiaux.jpg|thumb|left|[[Çetes|Muslim bandits]] parading with loot in Phocaea (modern-day [[Foça]], Turkey) on [[Massacre of Phocaea|13 June 1914]]. In the background are Greek refugees and burning buildings.|alt=see caption]]
The 1912 [[First Balkan War]] resulted in the [[Territorial evolution of the Ottoman Empire#1913|loss of almost all of the empire's European territory]]{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=184–185}} and the mass expulsion of Muslims from the Balkans.{{sfn|Kieser|2018|p=167}} Ottoman Muslim society was incensed by the atrocities committed against Balkan Muslims, intensifying anti-Christian sentiment and leading to a desire for revenge.{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=185, 363}}{{sfn|Üngör|2012|p=50}} Blame for the loss was assigned to all Christians, including the Ottoman Armenians, many of whom had fought on the Ottoman side.{{sfn|Bozarslan ''et al.''|2015|pp=169, 171}} The Balkan Wars put an end to the [[Ottomanism|Ottomanist]] movement for pluralism and coexistence;{{sfn|Bloxham|Göçek|2008|p=363}} instead, the CUP turned to an increasingly radical Turkish nationalism to preserve the empire.{{sfn|Kieser|2018|p=156}} CUP leaders such as Talaat and [[Enver Pasha]] came to blame non-Muslim population concentrations in strategic areas for many of the empire's problems, concluding by mid-1914 that they were internal tumors to be excised.{{sfn|Kaligian|2017|pp=97–98}} Of these, Ottoman Armenians were considered the most dangerous, because CUP leaders feared that their homeland in Anatolia—claimed as the last refuge of the Turkish nation—would break away from the empire as the Balkans had.{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=193}}{{sfn|Göçek|2015|p=191}}{{sfn|Kieser|2018|p=156}}


In January 1913, the CUP [[1913 Ottoman coup d'état|launched another coup]], installed a [[one-party state]], and strictly repressed all real or perceived internal enemies.{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=189–190}}{{sfn|Kieser|2018|pp=133–134, 136, 138, 172}} After the coup, the CUP shifted the demography of border areas by resettling Balkan Muslim refugees while coercing Christians to emigrate; immigrants were promised property that had belonged to Christians.{{sfn|Kaligian|2017|pp=95, 97}}  When parts of Eastern Thrace were reoccupied by the Ottoman Empire during the [[Second Balkan War]] in mid-1913, there was a campaign of looting and intimidation against Greeks and Armenians, forcing many to emigrate.{{sfn|Kaligian|2017|pp=96–97}} Around 150,000 Greek Orthodox from the [[Aegean coast]] were [[1914 Greek deportations|forcibly deported]] in May and June 1914 by [[Çetes|Muslim bandits]], who were secretly backed by the CUP and sometimes joined by the [[Ottoman Army (1861–1922)|regular army]].{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=193, 211–212}}{{sfn|Kieser|2018|pp=169, 176–177}}{{sfn|Kaligian|2017|p=98}} Historian [[Matthias Bjørnlund]] states that the perceived success of the Greek deportations allowed CUP leaders to envision even more radical policies "as yet another extension of a policy of [[demographic engineering|social engineering]] through [[Turkification]]".{{sfn|Bjørnlund|2008|p=51}}
Once more, a [[Dogelore]] staff member by the name of Tsumugi. Despite being a 35 year old man, he would say things like "as long as your 16+ it doesn't matter", "I wanted the kid to get r**ped in the car", and generally act like a pedophile, this got to the point where one of the people who were exposed before (onyx) was actually horrified in one of the screenshots sent to Penez.
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[[File:35yearolddogeloremod.png|thumb|362x362px|This man is 35 years old.]]
 
==Ottoman entry into World War I==
[[File:Ottoman revenge map after Balkan wars.jpeg|thumb|upright=1.1|"Revenge" ({{lang-ota|انتقام}}) map highlighting territory lost during and after the Balkan Wars in black|alt=see caption]]
A few days after the outbreak of World War I, the CUP concluded [[Ottoman–German alliance|an alliance with Germany]] on 2 August 1914.{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=214–215}} The same month, CUP representatives went to [[Armenian congress at Erzurum|an ARF conference]] demanding that, in the event of war with [[Russian Empire|Russia]], the ARF incite [[Russian Armenians]] to intervene on the Ottoman side. Instead, the delegates resolved that Armenians should fight for the countries of their citizenships.{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=223–224}} During its war preparations, the Ottoman government recruited thousands of prisoners to join the paramilitary [[Special Organization (Ottoman Empire)|Special Organization]],{{sfn|Üngör|2016|pp=16–17}} which initially focused on stirring up revolts among Muslims behind Russian lines beginning before the empire officially entered the war.{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=233–234}} On 29&nbsp;October 1914, the empire [[Ottoman entry into World War I|entered World War&nbsp;I]] on the side of the [[Central Powers]] by launching a [[Black Sea Raid|surprise attack]] on Russian ports in the [[Black Sea]].{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=218}} Many Russian Armenians were enthusiastic about the war, but Ottoman Armenians were more ambivalent, afraid that supporting Russia would bring retaliation. Organization of [[Armenian volunteer units]] by Russian Armenians, later joined by some Ottoman Armenian deserters, further increased Ottoman suspicions against their Armenian population.{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=221–222}}
 
Wartime requisitions were often corrupt and arbitrary, and disproportionately targeted Greeks and Armenians.{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=225}} Armenian leaders urged young men to accept [[seferberlik|conscription into the army]], but many soldiers of all ethnicities and religions deserted due to difficult conditions and concern for their families.{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=226–227}} At least 10 percent of Ottoman Armenians were mobilized, leaving their communities bereft of fighting-age men and therefore largely unable to organize armed resistance to deportation in 1915.{{sfn|Kévorkian|2011|p=242}}{{sfn|Bozarslan ''et al.''|2015|p=179}} During the Ottoman [[Caucasus campaign|invasion of Russian]] and [[Persian campaign (World War I)|Persian territory]], the Special Organization massacred local Armenians and [[Seyfo|Assyrian/Syriac Christians]].{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=243–244}}{{sfn|Üngör|2016|p=18}} Beginning in November 1914, provincial governors of Van, Bitlis, and Erzerum sent many telegrams to the central government pressing for more severe measures against the Armenians, both regionally and throughout the empire.{{sfn|Akçam|2019|p=475}} These requests were endorsed by the central government already before 1915.{{sfn|Akçam|2019|pp=478–479}} Armenian civil servants were dismissed from their posts in late 1914 and early 1915.{{sfn|Üngör|2016|p=19}} In February 1915, the CUP leaders decided to disarm Armenians serving in the army and transfer them to [[Ottoman labour battalions|labor battalion]]s.{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=244}} The Armenian soldiers in labor battalions were systematically executed, although many skilled workers were spared until 1916.{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=248–249}}
 
== Onset of genocide ==
{{further|Causes of the Armenian genocide#Wartime radicalization}}
[[File:Leavening the Levant (1916) (14586438289) restored.jpg|thumb|left|Armenian defenders in Van, 1916|alt=Men with guns crouching in a trench and leaning against a defensive wall]]
[[File:Russian soldiers Sheykhalan 1915.jpg|thumb|left|Russian soldiers pictured in the former Armenian village of Sheykhalan near [[Muş|Mush]], 1915|alt=Two armed men standing by a ruined wall, surrounded by skulls and other human remains<!-- alt=Photograph of two Russian soldiers in a ruined village looking at skeletal remains -->]]
Minister of War Enver Pasha took over command of the Ottoman armies for the invasion of Russian territory, and tried to encircle the [[Russian Caucasus Army (World War I)|Russian Caucasus Army]] at the [[Battle of Sarikamish]], fought from December 1914 to January 1915. Unprepared for the harsh winter conditions,{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=241–242}} his forces were routed, losing more than 60,000 men.{{sfn|Akçam|2012|p=157}} The retreating Ottoman army destroyed dozens of Ottoman Armenian villages in Bitlis vilayet, massacring their inhabitants.{{sfn|Üngör|2016|p=19}} Enver publicly blamed his defeat on Armenians who he claimed had actively sided with the Russians, a theory that became a consensus among CUP leaders.{{sfn|Üngör|2016|pp=18–19}}{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=243}} Reports of local incidents such as weapons caches, severed telegraph lines, and occasional killings confirmed preexisting beliefs about Armenian treachery and fueled paranoia among CUP leaders that a coordinated Armenian conspiracy was plotting against the empire.{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=248}}{{sfn|Kieser|2018|pp=235–238}} Discounting contrary reports that most Armenians were loyal, the CUP leaders decided that the Armenians had to be eliminated to save the empire.{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=248}}
 
Massacres of Armenian men were occurring in the vicinity of [[Bashkale]] in Van vilayet from December 1914.{{sfn|Akçam|2019|p=472}} ARF leaders attempted to keep the situation calm, warning that even justifiable self-defense could lead to escalation of killing.{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=255}} The governor, [[Djevdet Bey]], ordered the Armenians of [[Van, Turkey|Van]] to hand over their arms on 18&nbsp;April 1915, creating a dilemma: If they obeyed, the Armenians expected to be killed, but if they refused, it would provide a pretext for massacres. Armenians fortified themselves in Van and repelled [[defense of Van (1915)|the Ottoman attack]] that began on 20&nbsp;April.{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=257}}{{sfn|Kévorkian|2011|p=319}} During the siege, Armenians in surrounding villages were massacred at Djevdet's orders. Russian forces captured Van on 18&nbsp;May, finding 55,000 corpses in the province—about half its prewar Armenian population.{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=259–260}} Djevdet's forces proceeded to Bitlis and attacked Armenian and Assyrian/Syriac villages; the men were killed immediately, many women and children were kidnapped by local Kurds, and others marched away to be killed later. By the end of June, there were only a dozen Armenians in the vilayet.{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=287, 289}}
 
The first deportations of Armenians were proposed by [[Djemal Pasha]], the commander of the [[Fourth Army (Ottoman Empire)|Fourth Army]], in February 1915 and targeted Armenians in [[Cilicia]] (specifically [[Iskenderun|Alexandretta]], [[Dörtyol]], Adana, [[Hadjin]], [[Süleymanlı|Zeytun]], and [[Kozan, Adana|Sis]]) who were relocated to the area around [[Konya]] in central Anatolia.{{sfn|Dündar|2011|p=281}} In late March or early April, the [[CUP Central Committee]] decided on the large-scale removal of Armenians from areas near the front lines.{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=247–248}} During the night of 23–24&nbsp;April 1915 hundreds of Armenian political activists, intellectuals, and community leaders were [[Deportation of Armenian intellectuals on 24 April 1915|rounded up in Constantinople and across the empire]]. This order from Talaat, intended to eliminate the Armenian leadership and anyone capable of organizing resistance, eventually resulted in the murder of most of those arrested.{{sfn|Kieser|2018|p=10}}{{sfn|Kévorkian|2011|pp=251–252}}{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=271–272}} The same day, Talaat banned all Armenian political organizations{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=273}} and ordered that the Armenians who had previously been removed from Cilicia be deported again, from central Anatolia—where they would likely have survived—to the [[Syrian Desert]].{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=274–275}}{{sfn|Akçam|2012|p=188}}
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== Systematic deportations ==
===Aims===
{{Quotebox|width=27em
| quote = We have been blamed for not making a distinction between guilty and innocent Armenians. [To do so] was impossible. Because of the nature of things, one who was still innocent today could be guilty tomorrow. The concern for the safety of Turkey simply had to silence all other concerns. Our actions were determined by national and historical necessity. | source = —Talaat Pasha, ''[[Berliner Tageblatt]]'', 4 May 1915{{sfn|Ihrig|2016|pp=162–163}}{{sfn|Bozarslan ''et al.''|2015|p=168}}}}
During World War I, the CUP—whose central goal was to preserve the Ottoman Empire—came to identify Armenian civilians as an existential threat.{{sfn|Akçam|2012|p=337}}{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=245}} CUP leaders held Armenians—including women and children—collectively guilty for "betraying" the empire, a belief that was crucial to deciding on genocide in early 1915.{{sfn|Akçam|2019|p=457}}{{sfn|Bozarslan ''et al.''|2015|pp=166–167}} At the same time, the war provided an opportunity to enact, in Talaat's words, the "definitive solution to the Armenian Question".{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=245}}{{sfn|Dündar|2011|p=284}} The CUP wrongly believed that the Russian Empire sought to annex eastern Anatolia, and ordered the genocide in large part to prevent this eventuality.{{sfn|Nichanian|2015|p=202}} The genocide was intended to permanently eliminate any possibility that Armenians could achieve autonomy or independence in the empire's eastern provinces.{{sfn|Watenpaugh|2013|p=284}} Ottoman records show the government aimed to reduce Armenians to no more than five percent of the local population in the sources of deportation and ten percent in the destination areas. This goal could not be accomplished without mass murder.{{sfn|Akçam|2012|pp=242, 247–248}}{{sfn|Dündar|2011|p=282}}{{sfn|Kieser|2018|p=261}}
 
The deportation of Armenians and resettlement of Muslims in their lands was part of a broader project intended to permanently restructure the demographics of Anatolia.{{sfn|Kaiser|2019|loc=6}}{{sfn|Bozarslan ''et al.''|2015|p=102}}{{sfn|Nichanian|2015|p=254}} Armenian homes, businesses, and land were preferentially allocated to Muslims from outside the empire, nomads, and the estimated 800,000 (largely Kurdish) Ottoman subjects displaced because of the war with Russia. Resettled Muslims were spread out (typically limited to 10 percent in any area) among larger Turkish populations so that they would lose their distinctive characteristics, such as non-Turkish languages or nomadism.{{sfn|Gingeras|2016|pp=176–177}} These migrants were exposed to harsh conditions and, in some cases, violence or restriction from leaving their new villages.{{sfn|Gingeras|2016|p=178}} The ethnic cleansing of Anatolia—the Armenian genocide, [[Assyrian genocide]], and [[Greek genocide|expulsion of Greeks]] after World War I—paved the way for the formation of an ethno-national Turkish state.{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=349, 364}}{{sfn|Bozarslan ''et al.''|2015|p=311}} In September 1918, Talaat emphasized that regardless of losing the war, he had succeeded at "transforming Turkey to a nation-state in Anatolia".{{sfn|Kieser|2018|p=376}}{{sfn|Nichanian|2015|p=227}}
 
Deportation amounted to a death sentence; the authorities planned for and intended the death of the deportees.{{sfn|Kaiser|2010|p=384}}{{sfn|Dündar|2011|pp=276–277}}{{sfn|Üngör|2012|p=54}} Deportation was only carried out behind the front lines, where no active rebellion existed, and was only possible in the absence of widespread resistance. Armenians who lived in the war zone were instead killed in massacres.{{sfn|Kaiser|2010|pp=366, 383}} Although ostensibly undertaken for military reasons,{{sfn|Mouradian|2018|p=148}} the deportation and murder of Armenians did not grant the empire any military advantage and actually undermined the Ottoman war effort.{{sfn|Rogan|2015|p=184}} The empire faced a dilemma between its goal of eliminating Armenians and its practical need for their labor; those Armenians retained for their skills, in particular for manufacturing in war industries, were indispensable to the logistics of the Ottoman Army.{{sfn|Cora|2020|pp=50–51}}{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=317}} By late 1915, the CUP had extinguished Armenian existence from eastern Anatolia.{{sfn|Kieser|2018|p=240}}
 
{{Wide image|Armenian Genocide Map-en.svg|1000px|alt=Map showing locations where Armenians were killed, deportation routes, and transit centers, as well as locations of Armenian resistance|Map of the Armenian genocide in 1915}}
 
===Administrative organization===
[[File:Waitingformassacref.png|thumb|Armenians gathered in a city prior to deportation. They were murdered outside the city.|alt=Large group of people gathered in a town square, holding some possessions]]
On 23 May 1915, Talaat ordered the deportation of all Armenians in Van, Bitlis, and Erzerum.{{sfn|Kaiser|2019|loc=10}}{{sfn|Üngör|2012|p=53}} To grant a cover of legality to the deportation, already well underway in the eastern provinces and Cilicia, the [[Council of Ministers (Ottoman Empire)|Council of Ministers]] approved the [[Temporary Law of Deportation]], which allowed authorities to deport anyone deemed "suspect".{{sfn|Üngör|2012|p=53}}{{sfn|Dündar|2011|p=283}}{{sfn|Bozarslan ''et al.''|2015|p=96}} On 21 June, Talaat ordered the deportation of all Armenians throughout the empire, even [[Adrianople]], {{convert|2,000|km|sp=us}} from the Russian front.{{sfn|Bozarslan ''et al.''|2015|p=97}} Following the elimination of the Armenian population in eastern Anatolia, in August 1915, the Armenians of western Anatolia and [[East Thrace|European Turkey]] were targeted for deportation. Some areas with a very low Armenian population and some cities, including Constantinople, were partially spared.{{sfn|Kaiser|2010|p=378}}{{sfn|Akçam|2012|pp=399–400}}
 
Overall, national, regional, and local levels of governance cooperated with the CUP in the perpetration of genocide.{{sfn|Kieser|2018|p=247}} The [[Directorate for the Settlement of Tribes and Immigrants]] (IAMM) coordinated the deportation and the resettlement of Muslim immigrants in the vacant houses and lands. The IAMM, under the control of Talaat's [[Ministry of the Interior (Ottoman Empire)|Ministry of the Interior]], and the Special Organization, which took orders directly from the CUP Central Committee, closely coordinated their activities.{{sfn|Bozarslan ''et al.''|2015|pp=89–90}} A dual-track system was used to communicate orders; those for the deportation of Armenians were communicated to the provincial governors through official channels, but orders of a criminal character, such as those calling for annihilation, were sent through party channels and destroyed upon receipt.{{sfn|Bozarslan ''et al.''|2015|pp=92–93}}{{sfn|Akçam|2012|pp=194–195}} Deportation convoys were mostly escorted by gendarmes or local militia. The killings near the front lines were carried out by the Special Organization, and those farther away also involved local militias, bandits, gendarmes, or Kurdish tribes depending on the area.{{sfn|Kaiser|2010|p=376}} Within the area controlled by the [[Third Army (Ottoman Empire)|Third Army]], which held eastern Anatolia, the army was only involved in genocidal atrocities in the vilayets of Van, Erzerum, and Bitlis.{{sfn|Bozarslan ''et al.''|2015|p=94}}
 
Many perpetrators came from the Caucasus ([[Chechens]] and Circassians), who identified the Armenians with their Russian conquerors. Nomadic Kurds committed many atrocities during the genocide, but settled Kurds only rarely did so.{{sfn|Kévorkian|2011|p=810}} Perpetrators had several motives, including ideology, revenge, desire for Armenian property, and [[careerism]].{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=352}} To motivate perpetrators, state-appointed [[imam]]s encouraged the killing of Armenians{{sfn|Üngör|2012|p=58}} and killers were entitled to a third of Armenian [[movable property]] (another third went to local authorities and the last to the CUP). Embezzling beyond that was punished.{{sfn|Kaiser|2019|loc=35, 37}}{{sfn|Bozarslan ''et al.''|2015|pp=98–99}} Ottoman politicians and officials who opposed the genocide were dismissed or assassinated.{{sfn|Kieser|2018|p=247}}{{sfn|Bozarslan ''et al.''|2015|p=94}}{{sfn|Kévorkian|2011|pp=246–247}} The government decreed that any Muslim who harbored an Armenian against the will of the authorities would be executed.{{sfn|Üngör|2012|p=61}}{{sfn|Akçam|2012|pp=327–328}}
 
===Death marches===
[[File:Lake Hazar and Mount Hazar Baba.jpg|thumb|On 24&nbsp;September 1915, United States consul [[Leslie Davis (diplomat)|Leslie Davis]] visited [[Lake Hazar]] and found nearby gorges choked with corpses and hundreds of bodies floating in the lake.{{sfn|Kévorkian|2014|p=91}}|alt=Color photograph of a lake with gorges leading into it]]
Although the majority of able-bodied Armenian men had been conscripted into the army, others deserted, paid the exemption tax, or fell outside the age range of conscription. Unlike the earlier massacres of Ottoman Armenians, in 1915 Armenians were not usually killed in their villages, to avoid destruction of property or unauthorized looting. Instead, the men were usually separated from the rest of the deportees during the first few days and executed. Few resisted, believing it would put their families in greater danger.{{sfn|Kaiser|2010|p=376}} Boys above the age of twelve (sometimes fifteen) were treated as adult men.{{sfn|Maksudyan|2020|pp=121–122}} Execution sites were chosen for proximity to major roads and for rugged terrain, lakes, wells, or cisterns to facilitate the concealment or disposal of corpses.{{sfn|Kévorkian|2014|p=91}}{{sfn|Kaiser|2010|p=377}}{{sfn|Bozarslan ''et al.''|2015|p=93}} The convoys would stop at a nearby transit camp, where the escorts would demand a ransom from the Armenians. Those unable to pay were murdered.{{sfn|Kaiser|2010|p=376}} Units of the Special Organization, often wearing gendarme uniforms, were stationed at the killing sites; escorting gendarmes often did not participate in killing.{{sfn|Bozarslan ''et al.''|2015|p=93}}
 
At least 150,000 Armenians passed through [[Erzindjan]] from June 1915, where a series of transit camps were set up to control the flow of victims to the killing site at the nearby [[Kemah, Erzincan|Kemah]] gorge.{{sfn|Kaiser|2019|loc=3, 22}} Thousands of Armenians were killed near [[Lake Hazar]], pushed by paramilitaries off the cliffs.{{sfn|Kévorkian|2014|p=91}} More than 500,000 Armenians passed through the Firincilar plain south of [[Malatya]], one of the deadliest areas during the genocide. Arriving convoys, having passed through the plain to approach the [[Kahta]] highlands, would have found gorges already filled with corpses from previous convoys.{{sfn|Kaiser|2010|p=377}}{{sfn|Kévorkian|2014|p=93}} Many others were held in tributary valleys of the [[Tigris]], [[Euphrates]], or [[Murat River|Murat]] and systematically executed by the Special Organization.{{sfn|Kévorkian|2014|p=90}} Armenian men were often drowned by being tied together back-to-back before being thrown in the water, a method that was not used on women.{{sfn|Kévorkian|2014|p=92}}
 
[[File:Ambassador Morgenthau's Story p314.jpg|thumb|left|alt=Photograph of the bodies of dozens of Armenians in a field|The corpses of Armenians beside a road, a common sight along deportation routes]]
Authorities viewed disposal of bodies through rivers as a cheap and efficient method, but it caused widespread pollution downstream. So many bodies floated down the Tigris and Euphrates that they sometimes blocked the rivers and needed to be cleared with explosives. Other rotting corpses became stuck to the riverbanks, and still others traveled as far as the [[Persian Gulf]]. The rivers remained polluted long after the massacres, causing epidemics downstream.{{sfn|Kévorkian|2014|p=95}} Tens of thousands of Armenians died along the roads and their bodies were buried hastily or, more often, simply left beside the roads. The Ottoman government ordered the corpses to be cleared as soon as possible to prevent both photographic documentation and disease epidemics, but these orders were not uniformly followed.{{sfn|Akçam|2018|p=158}}{{sfn|Kévorkian|2014|p=94}}
 
Women and children, who made up the great majority of deportees, were usually not executed immediately, but subjected to hard marches through mountainous terrain without food and water. Those who could not keep up were left to die or shot.{{sfn|Kévorkian|2014|pp=92–93}} During 1915, some were forced to walk as far as {{convert|1,000|km|sp=us}} in the summer heat.{{sfn|Üngör|2012|p=54}} Some deportees from western Anatolia were allowed to travel [[Baghdad railway|by rail]].{{sfn|Kaiser|2010|p=378}} There was a distinction between the convoys from eastern Anatolia, which were eliminated almost in their entirety, and those from farther west, which made up most of those surviving to reach Syria.{{sfn|Kévorkian|2011|p=808}} For example, around 99 percent of Armenians deported from Erzerum did not reach their destination.{{sfn|Üngör|2012|p=53}}
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===Islamization===
[[File:Armenians rescued from Arabs LCCN2014706724.png|thumb|upright|Islamized Armenians who were "[[Vorpahavak|rescued from Arabs]]" after the war|alt=Several women dressed in Arab clothing and posed in front of a wall]]
The Islamization of Armenians, carried out as a systematic state policy involving the bureaucracy, police, judiciary, and clergy, was a major structural component of the genocide.{{sfn|Akçam|2012|pp=314, 316}}{{sfn|Kurt|2016|loc=2, 21}} An estimated 100,000 to 200,000 Armenians were Islamized,{{sfn|Akçam|2012|p=331}} and it is estimated that as many as two&nbsp;million Turkish citizens in the early 21st century [[Hidden Armenians|may have at least one Armenian grandparent]].{{sfn|Watenpaugh|2013|p=291}} Some Armenians were allowed to convert to Islam and evade deportation, but the regime insisted on their destruction wherever their numbers exceeded the five to ten percent threshold, or there was a risk of them being able to preserve their nationality and culture.{{sfn|Akçam|2012|pp=290–291}} Talaat Pasha personally authorized conversion of Armenians and carefully tracked the loyalty of converted Armenians until the end of the war.{{sfn|Kurt|2016|loc=5, 13–14}} Although the first and most important step was conversion to Islam, the process also required the eradication of [[Armenian name]]s, [[Armenian language|language]], and [[Armenian culture|culture]], and for women, [[forced marriage|immediate marriage]] to a Muslim.{{sfn|Kurt|2016|loc=15}} Although Islamization was the most feasible opportunity for survival, it also transgressed Armenian moral and social norms.{{sfn|Kurt|2016|loc=5}}
 
The CUP allowed Armenian women to marry into Muslim households, as these women had to convert to Islam and would lose their Armenian identity.{{sfn|Kaiser|2010|p=377}} Young women and girls were often appropriated as house servants or sex slaves. Some boys were abducted to work as forced laborers for Muslim individuals.{{sfn|Kaiser|2010|p=377}}{{sfn|Watenpaugh|2013|pp=291–292}} Some children were forcibly seized, while others were sold or given up by their parents to save their lives.{{sfn|Akçam|2012|p=314}}{{sfn|Watenpaugh|2013|pp=284–285}} Special state-run orphanages were also set up with strict procedures intending to deprive their charges of an Armenian identity.{{sfn|Kurt|2016|loc=17}} Most Armenian children who survived the genocide endured exploitation, hard labor without pay, forced conversion to Islam, and [[child abuse|physical and sexual abuse]].{{sfn|Watenpaugh|2013|pp=291–292}} Armenian women captured during the journey ended up in Turkish or Kurdish households; those who were Islamized during the second phase of the genocide found themselves in an [[Ottoman Arabia|Arab]] or [[Bedouin]] environment.{{sfn|Kévorkian|2011|pp=757–758}}
 
The [[Rape during the Armenian genocide|rape]], sexual abuse, and prostitution of Armenian women were all very common.{{sfn|Akçam|2012|p=312}} Although Armenian women tried to avoid sexual violence, suicide was often the only alternative.{{sfn|Kaiser|2010|pp=377–378}} Deportees were displayed naked in [[Damascus]] and sold as sex slaves in some areas, constituting an important source of income for accompanying gendarmes.{{sfn|Akçam|2012|pp=312–315}} Some were sold in Arabian slave markets to Muslim [[Hajj]] pilgrims and ended up as far away as Tunisia or Algeria.{{sfn|Kévorkian|2011|p=758}}
 
===Confiscation of property===
{{main|Confiscation of Armenian properties in Turkey|National economy (Turkey)}}
[[File:Turkey. Ankara. Palace of Attaturk (i.e., Ataturk) LOC matpc.16728 (cropped).jpg|thumb|[[Çankaya Mansion]], the official residence of the [[president of Turkey]], was confiscated from Ohannes Kasabian, an Armenian businessman, in 1915.{{sfn|Cheterian|2015|pp=245–246}}|alt=Black and white photograph of a manor house]]
A secondary motivation for genocide was the destruction of the Armenian bourgeoisie to make room for a Turkish and Muslim middle class{{sfn|Watenpaugh|2013|p=284}} and build a statist "[[national economy (Turkey)|national economy]]" controlled by Muslim Turks.{{sfn|Kévorkian|2011|p=810}}{{sfn|Kieser|2018|p=273}} The campaign to Turkify the economy began in June 1914 with a law that obliged many ethnic minority merchants to hire Muslims. Following the deportations, the businesses of the victims were taken over by Muslims who were often incompetent, leading to economic difficulties.{{sfn|Kévorkian|2011|p=202}} The genocide had catastrophic effects on the Ottoman economy; Muslims were disadvantaged by the deportation of skilled professionals and entire districts fell into famine following their farmers' deportation.{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=316–317}} The Ottoman and Turkish governments passed a series of [[Abandoned Properties Laws]] to manage and redistribute property confiscated from Armenians.{{sfn|Akçam|Kurt|2015|p=2}}{{sfn|Kévorkian|2011|pp=203–204}} Although the laws maintained that the state was simply administering the properties on behalf of the absent Armenians, there was no provision to return them to the owners—it was presumed that they had ceased to exist.{{sfn|Akçam|Kurt|2015|pp=11–12}}
 
Historians [[Taner Akçam]] and [[Ümit Kurt (historian)|Ümit Kurt]] argue that "The Republic of Turkey and its legal system were built, in a sense, on the seizure of Armenian cultural, social, and economic wealth, and on the removal of the Armenian presence."{{sfn|Akçam|Kurt|2015|p=2}} The proceeds from the sale of confiscated property was often used to fund the deportation of Armenians and resettlement of Muslims, as well as for army, militia, and other government spending.{{sfn|Akçam|2012|pp=256–257}} Ultimately this formed much of the basis of the industry and economy of the post-1923 republic, endowing it with [[Capital (economics)|capital]].{{sfn|Üngör|Polatel|2011|p=80}}{{sfn|Bozarslan ''et al.''|2015|p=189}} The dispossession and exile of Armenian competitors enabled many lower-class Turks (i.e. peasantry, soldiers, and laborers) to rise to the middle class.{{sfn|Üngör|Polatel|2011|p=80}} Confiscation of Armenian assets continued into the second half of the twentieth century,{{sfn|Kieser|2018|p=268}} and in 2006 the [[National Security Council (Turkey)|National Security Council]] ruled that property records from 1915 must be kept closed to protect national security.{{sfn|Akçam|Kurt|2015|p=3}} Outside Istanbul, the traces of Armenian existence in Turkey, including churches and monasteries, libraries, ''[[khachkar]]s'', and [[Animal name changes in Turkey|animal]] and [[Geographical name changes in Turkey|place names]], have been systematically erased, beginning during the war and continuing for decades afterward.{{sfn|Cheterian|2015|pp=64–65}}{{sfn|Göçek|2015|p=411}}{{sfn|Suciyan|2015|p=59}}
 
== Destination ==
{{further|Deir ez-Zor camps|Ras al-Ayn camps}}
[[File:Armenian woman kneeling beside dead child in field.png|thumb|left|An Armenian woman kneeling beside a dead child in a field outside Aleppo|alt=see caption]]
[[File:Khabur,Rasal-Ain.jpg|thumb|left|[[Khabur (Euphrates)|Khabur]] near [[Ras al-Ayn]]|alt=Thin stream of water surrounded by greenery and banks, above which is desert]]
 
The first arrivals in mid-1915 were accommodated in [[Aleppo]]. From mid-November, the convoys were denied access to the city and redirected along the Baghdad Railway or the Euphrates towards [[Mosul]]. The first transit camp was established at Sibil, east of Aleppo; one convoy would arrive each day while another would depart for [[Meskene]] or [[Deir ez-Zor]].{{sfn|Kévorkian|2014|p=97}} Dozens of concentration camps were set up in Syria and [[Upper Mesopotamia]].{{sfn|Kévorkian|2011|p=625}} By October 1915, some 870,000 deportees had reached Syria and Upper Mesopotamia. Most were repeatedly transferred between camps, being held in each camp for a few weeks, until there were very few survivors.{{sfn|Kévorkian|2014|p=98}} This strategy physically weakened the Armenians and spread disease, so much that some camps were shut down in late 1915 due to the threat of disease spreading to the Ottoman military.{{sfn|Shirinian|2017|p=21}}{{sfn| Kévorkian|2011|pp=633–635}} In late 1915, the camps around Aleppo were liquidated and the survivors were forced to march to [[Ras al-Ayn camps|Ras al-Ayn]]; the camps around Ras al-Ayn were closed in early 1916 and the survivors sent to Deir ez-Zor.{{sfn|Mouradian|2018|p=155}}
 
In general, Armenians were denied food and water during and after their forced march to the Syrian desert;{{sfn|Shirinian|2017|p=21}}{{sfn|Kaiser|2010|p=380}} many died of starvation, exhaustion, or disease, especially [[dysentery]], [[typhus]], and [[pneumonia]].{{sfn|Shirinian|2017|p=21}}{{sfn|Kévorkian|2014|p=96}} Some local officials gave Armenians food; others took bribes to provide food and water.{{sfn|Shirinian|2017|p=21}} Aid organizations were officially barred from providing food to the deportees, although some circumvented these prohibitions.{{sfn|Shirinian|2017|p=23}} Survivors testified that some Armenians refused aid as they believed it would only prolong their suffering.{{sfn|Shirinian|2017|pp=20–21}} The guards raped female prisoners and also allowed Bedouins to raid the camps at night for looting and rape; some women were forced into marriage.{{sfn|Mouradian|2018|p=152}}{{sfn|Kaiser|2010|p=380}} Thousands of Armenian children were sold to childless Turks, Arabs, and Jews, who would come to the camps to buy them from their parents.{{sfn|Kévorkian|2014|p=98}} In the western [[Levant]], governed by the [[Ottoman Fourth Army]] under Djemal Pasha, there were no concentration camps or large-scale massacres, rather Armenians were resettled and recruited to work for the war effort. They had to convert to Islam or face deportation to another area.{{sfn|Kévorkian|2011|pp=673–674}}
 
Armenian ability to adapt and survive was greater than the perpetrators expected.{{sfn|Kaiser|2010|p=384}}{{sfn|Kévorkian|2011|p=693}} A loosely organized, Armenian-led resistance network based in Aleppo succeeded in helping many deportees, saving Armenian lives.{{sfn|Mouradian|2018|p=154}} At the beginning of 1916 some 500,000 deportees were alive in Syria and Mesopotamia.{{sfn|Kévorkian|2011|p=808}} Afraid that surviving Armenians might return home after the war, Talaat Pasha ordered a second wave of massacres in February 1916.{{sfn|Kieser|2018|pp=259, 265}} Another wave of deportations targeted Armenians remaining in Anatolia.{{sfn|Kévorkian|2011|pp=695, 808}} More than 200,000 Armenians were killed between March and October 1916, often in remote areas near Deir ez-Zor and on parts of the [[Khabur (Euphrates)|Khabur]] valley, where their bodies would not create a public health hazard.{{sfn|Kieser|2018|p=262}}{{sfn|Kévorkian|2014|p=107}} The massacres killed most of the Armenians who had survived the camp system.{{sfn|Mouradian|2018|p=155}}
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== International reaction ==
[[File:Lest they perish LCCN2002711981 restored.jpg|thumb|upright=0.75|Fundraising poster for [[Near East Relief]]|alt=Modestly dressed woman carrying a child and surrounded by foodstuffs provided by relief efforts. The caption says "Lest they perish".]]
The Ottoman Empire tried to prevent journalists and photographers from documenting the atrocities, threatening them with arrest.{{sfn|Leonard|2004|p=297}}{{sfn|Akçam|2018|p=157}} Nevertheless, substantiated reports of mass killings were [[Press coverage during the Armenian genocide|widely covered in Western newspapers]].{{sfn|Leonard|2004|p=300}}{{sfn|de Waal|2015|p=2}} On 24&nbsp;May 1915, the [[Triple Entente]] (Russia, Britain, and France) [[May 1915 Triple Entente declaration|formally condemned]] the Ottoman Empire for "[[crimes against humanity]] and civilization", and threatened to hold the perpetrators accountable.{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=308}} Witness testimony was published in books such as ''[[The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire]]'' (1916) and ''[[Ambassador Morgenthau's Story]]'' (1918), which raised public awareness about the genocide.{{sfn|Tusan|2014|pp=57–58}}
 
The [[German Empire]] was a military ally of the Ottoman Empire during World War&nbsp;I.{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=298}} German diplomats approved limited removals of Armenians in early 1915, and [[Germany and the Armenian genocide|took no action]] against the genocide,{{sfn|Kieser|Bloxham|2014|pp=600, 606–607}}{{sfn|Kieser|2018|pp=20–21}} which has been a source of controversy.{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=298}}{{sfn|Ihrig|2016|p=134}}
 
Relief efforts were organized in dozens of countries to raise money for Armenian survivors. By 1925, people in 49 countries were organizing "Golden Rule Sundays" during which they consumed the diet of Armenian refugees, to raise money for humanitarian efforts.{{sfn|Anderson|2011|p=200}} Between 1915 and 1930, [[Near East Relief]] raised $110&nbsp;million (${{Inflation|US|.11|1930|fmt=c|r=1}}&nbsp;billion adjusted for inflation) for refugees from the Ottoman Empire.<ref>{{cite web |title=History |url=https://www.neareast.org/who-we-are/ |website=[[Near East Foundation]] |access-date=10 March 2021 |archive-date=3 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150603200305/https://www.neareast.org/who-we-are/ |url-status=live }}</ref>


==Aftermath==
==Aftermath==
===End of World War I===
[[File:Armenian Genocide deaths.svg|thumb|upright=1.3|Percent of prewar Armenian population "unaccounted for" in 1917 based on Talaat Pasha's record. Black indicates that 100 percent of Armenians have disappeared. "Resettlement" zone is displayed in red.|alt=Eastern Anatolia is all close to black, but western Anatolia is more varied.]]
Intentional, state-sponsored killing of Armenians mostly ceased by the end of January 1917, although sporadic massacres and starvation continued.{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=330}} Both contemporaries{{sfn|Kévorkian|2011|p=721}}{{sfn|de Waal|2015|p=20}} and later historians have estimated that around 1&nbsp;million Armenians [[Casualties of the Armenian genocide|died during the genocide]],{{sfn|Morris|Ze'evi|2019|p=1}}{{sfn|de Waal|2015|p=35}} with figures ranging from 600,000 to 1.5 million deaths.{{sfn|Morris|Ze'evi|2019|p=486}} Between 800,000 and 1.2&nbsp;million Armenians were deported,{{sfn|Morris|Ze'evi|2019|p=486}}{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=354–355}} and contemporaries estimated that by late 1916 only 200,000 were still alive.{{sfn|Morris|Ze'evi|2019|p=486}} As the [[British Army]] advanced in 1917 and 1918 [[Sinai and Palestine campaign|northwards through the Levant]], they liberated around 100,000 to 150,000 Armenians working for the Ottoman military under abysmal conditions, not including those held by Arab tribes.{{sfn|Kévorkian|2020|pp=151–152}}
As a result of the [[Bolshevik Revolution]] and a subsequent [[Treaty of Brest-Litovsk|separate peace with the Central Powers]], the Russian army withdrew and Ottoman forces advanced into eastern Anatolia.{{sfn|Payaslian|2007|pp=148–149}} The [[First Republic of Armenia]] was proclaimed in May 1918, at which time 50 percent of its population were refugees and 60 percent of its territory was under Ottoman occupation.{{sfn|Payaslian|2007|pp=150–151}} Ottoman troops withdrew from parts of Armenia following the October 1918 [[Armistice of Mudros]].{{sfn|Payaslian|2007|pp=152–153}} From 1918 to 1920, Armenian militants committed revenge killings of thousands of Muslims, which have been cited as a retroactive excuse for genocide.{{sfn|Kieser|2018|p=367}}{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=342}} In 1918, at least 200,000 people in Armenia, mostly refugees, died from starvation or disease, in part due to a Turkish blockade of food supplies{{sfn|Kévorkian|2011|p=706}} and the deliberate destruction of crops in eastern Armenia by Turkish troops, both before and after the armistice.{{sfn|Shirinian|2017|p=24}}
Armenians organized a coordinated effort known as ''[[vorpahavak]]'' ({{lit|the gathering of orphans}}) that reclaimed thousands of kidnapped and islamized Armenian women and children.{{sfn|Ekmekçioğlu|2013|pp=534–535}} Armenian leaders abandoned traditional [[patrilineality]] to classify children born to Armenian women and their Muslim captors as Armenian.{{sfn|Ekmekçioğlu|2013|pp=530, 545}} An orphanage in [[Alexandropol]] held 25,000 orphans, the largest number in the world.{{sfn|de Waal|2015|p=76}} In 1920, the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople reported it was caring for 100,000 orphans, estimating that another 100,000 remained captive.{{sfn|Kévorkian|2011|p=759}}
=== Trials ===
{{main|Prosecution of Ottoman war criminals|Turkish courts-martial of 1919–1920|l2=Ottoman Special Military Tribunal}}
Following the armistice, Allied governments championed the prosecution of war criminals.{{sfn|Dadrian|Akçam|2011|pp=23–24}} Grand Vizier [[Damat Ferid Pasha]] publicly recognized that 800,000 Ottoman citizens of Armenian origin had died as a result of state policy{{sfn|Dadrian|Akçam|2011|p=47}} and stated that "humanity, civilizations are shuddering, and forever will shudder, in face of this tragedy".{{sfn|Dadrian|Akçam|2011|p=49}} The postwar Ottoman government held the [[Ottoman Special Military Tribunal]], by which it sought to pin the Armenian genocide onto the CUP leadership while exonerating the Ottoman Empire as a whole, therefore avoiding [[Partition of the Ottoman Empire|partition by the Allies]].{{sfn|Nichanian|2015|p=207}} The court ruled that "the crime of mass murder" of Armenians was "organized and carried out by the top leaders of CUP".{{sfn|Dadrian|Akçam|2011|p=120}} Eighteen perpetrators (including Talaat, Enver, and Djemal) were sentenced to death, of whom only three were ultimately executed as the remainder had fled and were tried ''[[in absentia]]''.{{sfn|Üngör|2012|p=62}}{{sfn|Dadrian|Akçam|2011|pp=24, 195}} The 1920 [[Treaty of Sèvres]], which awarded Armenia [[Wilsonian Armenia|a large area in eastern Anatolia]], eliminated the Ottoman government's purpose for holding the trials.{{sfn|Nichanian|2015|p=217}} Prosecution was hampered by a widespread belief among Turkish Muslims that the actions against the Armenians were not punishable crimes.{{sfn|Kévorkian|2011|p=810}} Increasingly, the crimes were considered necessary and justified to establish a Turkish nation-state.{{sfn|Göçek|2011|pp=45–46}}
On 15&nbsp;March 1921, [[Assassination of Talat Pasha|Talaat was assassinated]] in Berlin as part of [[Operation Nemesis]], the 1920s covert operation of the ARF to kill the perpetrators of the Armenian genocide.{{sfn|Cheterian|2015|pp=126–127}}{{sfn|Kieser|2018|pp=403–404, 409}}{{sfn|Suny|2015|p=346}} The trial of his admitted killer, [[Soghomon Tehlirian]], focused on Talaat's responsibility for genocide. Tehlirian was acquitted by a German jury.{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=344–346}}{{sfn|Ihrig|2016|pp=226–227, 235, 262, 293, "Trial in Berlin" ''passim''}}
===Turkish War of Independence===
[[File:The Story of Near East Relief, page 207 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Children evacuated from [[Harput]] by [[Near East Relief]] in 1922 or 1923|alt=Caravan of people traveling in a line]]
[[File:Refugee camp, Beirut from Bain Collection, no date (LOC).jpg|thumb|Refugee camp in [[Beirut]], early 1920s|alt=Crowded tent camp stretching out a long distance]]
The CUP regrouped as the [[Turkish nationalist movement]] to fight the [[Turkish War of Independence]],{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=338–339}}{{sfn|Kieser|2018|p=319}}{{sfn|Nichanian|2015|p=242}} relying on the support of perpetrators of the genocide and those who had profited from it.{{sfn|Zürcher|2011|p=316}}{{sfn|Cheterian|2015|p=155}} This movement saw the return of Armenian survivors as a mortal threat to its nationalist ambitions and the interests of its supporters. The return of survivors was therefore impossible in most of Anatolia{{sfn|Bozarslan ''et al.''|2015|p=311}}{{sfn|Nichanian|2015|p=242}} and thousands of Armenians who tried were murdered.{{sfn|Nichanian|2015|pp=229–230}} Historian [[Raymond Kévorkian]] states that the war of independence was "intended to complete the genocide by finally eradicating Armenian, Greek, and Syriac survivors".{{sfn|Kévorkian|2020|p=165}} In 1920, Turkish general [[Kâzım Karabekir]] [[Turkish-Armenian War|invaded Armenia]] with orders "to eliminate Armenia physically and politically".{{sfn|Kévorkian|2020|pp=164–165}}{{sfn|Nichanian|2015| p=238}} Nearly 100,000 Armenians were massacred in [[Transcaucasia]] by the Turkish army and another 100,000 fled from [[Cilicia]] during the [[Franco-Turkish War|French withdrawal]].{{sfn|Nichanian|2015| p=238}} According to Kévorkian, only the [[Soviet occupation of Armenia]] prevented another genocide.{{sfn|Kévorkian|2020|pp=164–165}}
The victorious nationalists subsequently declared the [[Republic of Turkey]] in 1923.{{sfn|Nichanian|2015|p=244}} CUP war criminals were granted immunity{{sfn|Dadrian|Akçam|2011|p=104}} and later that year, the [[Treaty of Lausanne]] established Turkey's current borders and provided for the [[Population exchange between Greece and Turkey|Greek population's expulsion]]. Its minority protection provisions had no enforcement mechanism and were disregarded in practice.{{sfn|Kieser|2018|p=28}}{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=367–368}}
Armenian survivors were left mainly in three locations. About 295,000 Armenians had fled to Russian-controlled territory during the genocide and ended up mostly in [[Soviet Armenia]]. An estimated 200,000 Armenian refugees settled in the Middle East, forming a new wave of the [[Armenian diaspora]].{{sfn|Cheterian|2015|pp=103–104}} In the Republic of Turkey, about [[Armenians in Istanbul|100,000 Armenians lived in Constantinople]] and another 200,000 lived in the provinces, largely women and children who had been forcibly converted.{{sfn|Cheterian|2015|p=104}} Though Armenians in Constantinople faced discrimination, they were allowed to maintain their cultural identity, unlike those elsewhere in Turkey{{sfn|Cheterian|2015|p=104}}{{sfn|Suciyan|2015|p=27}} who continued to face forced Islamization and kidnapping of girls after 1923.{{sfn|Cheterian|2015|p=203}}{{sfn|Suciyan|2015|p=65}} Between 1922 and 1929, the Turkish authorities eliminated surviving Armenians from southern Turkey, expelling thousands to [[French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon|French-mandate Syria]].{{sfn|Kévorkian|2020|p=161}}
== Legacy ==
According to historian [[Margaret Lavinia Anderson]], the Armenian genocide reached an "iconic status" as "the apex of horrors conceivable" before [[World War&nbsp;II]].{{sfn|Anderson|2011|p=199}} It was described by contemporaries as "the murder of a nation", "race extermination",{{sfn|Ihrig|2016|pages=9, 55}} "the greatest crime of the ages", and "the blackest page in modern history".{{sfn|de Waal|2015|p=21}}{{sfn|Kieser|2018|pp=289–290}} According to historian [[Stefan Ihrig]], in Germany, the [[Nazi Party|Nazis]] viewed post-1923 Turkey as a post-genocidal paradise and, "[[Armenian genocide and the Holocaust|incorporated the Armenian genocide]], its 'lessons', tactics, and 'benefits', into their own worldview".{{sfn|Ihrig|2016|pp=349, 354}}
=== Turkey ===
{{See also|Armenian genocide denial}}
In the 1920s, Kurds and [[Alevis]] replaced Armenians as the perceived [[internal enemy]] of the Turkish state. [[Militarism#Turkey|Militarism]], weak [[rule of law]], lack of [[minority rights]], and especially the [[Sèvres Syndrome|belief that Turkey is constantly under threat]]—thus justifying [[state violence]]—are among the main legacies of 1915 in Turkey.{{sfn|Nichanian|2015|pp=263–264}} In postwar Turkey, the perpetrators of the genocide were hailed as "martyrs" of the national cause.{{sfn|Nichanian|2015|p=242}} Turkey's official denial of the Armenian genocide continues to rely on the CUP's [[genocide justification|justification]] of its actions. The Turkish government maintains that the mass deportation of Armenians was a legitimate action to combat an existential threat to the empire, but that there was no intention to exterminate the Armenian people.{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=xii, 361}}{{sfn|Akçam|2012|pp=xi, 451}} The government's position is supported by the majority of Turkish citizens.{{sfn|Göçek|2015|p=1}} Many Kurds, who themselves have suffered political repression in Turkey, [[Kurdish recognition of the Armenian genocide|have recognized and condemned the genocide]].{{sfn|Cheterian|2015|pp=273–275}}{{sfn|Galip|2020|pp=162–163}}
The Turkish state perceives open discussion of the genocide as a threat to national security because of its connection with the foundation of the republic, and for decades strictly [[Censorship in Turkey|censored]] it.{{sfn|Akçam|Kurt|2015|pp=3–4}}{{sfn|Galip|2020|p=3}} In 2002, the [[AK Party]] came to power and relaxed censorship to a certain extent, and the profile of the issue was raised by the 2007 [[Assassination of Hrant Dink|assassination]] of [[Hrant Dink]], a Turkish-Armenian journalist known for his advocacy of reconciliation.{{sfn|Galip|2020|pp=3–4}} Although the AK Party softened the state denial rhetoric, describing Armenians as part of the Ottoman Empire's war losses,{{sfn|Ben Aharon|2019|p=339}} during the 2010s political repression and censorship increased again.{{sfn|Galip|2020|pp=83–85}} Turkey's century-long effort to prevent any recognition or mention of the genocide in foreign countries has included millions of dollars in lobbying,{{sfn|Göçek|2015|p=2}} as well as intimidation and threats.{{sfn|Chorbajian|2016|p=178}}
=== Armenia and Azerbaijan ===
[[File:Genocide Memorial complex from air on a sunny day, September 2017.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Aerial view of the [[Armenian Genocide memorial complex]] on a hill above [[Yerevan]]|alt=Spiky monument perched on a hill above a large city]]
[[Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day]] is commemorated on 24 April each year in Armenia and abroad, the anniversary of the [[deportation of Armenian intellectuals]].{{sfn|Cheterian|2015|p=110}}{{sfn|Ben Aharon|2019|p=347}} On 24&nbsp;April 1965, 100,000 Armenians [[1965 Yerevan demonstrations|protested in Yerevan]], and diaspora Armenians demonstrated across the world in favor of recognition of the genocide and annexing land from Turkey.{{sfn|de Waal|2015|pp=140, 142}}{{sfn|Cheterian|2015|p=110}} A memorial was completed two years later, at [[Tsitsernakaberd]] above Yerevan.{{sfn|Cheterian|2015|p=110}}{{sfn|de Waal|2015|pp=146–147}}
[[Karabakh movement|Since 1988]], Armenians and Turkic [[Azeris]] have been involved in a [[Nagorno-Karabakh conflict|conflict]] over [[Nagorno-Karabakh]], an Armenian enclave internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan. Initially involving peaceful demonstrations by Armenians, the conflict turned violent and has featured massacres by both sides, resulting in the displacement of more than half a million people.{{sfn|Bloxham|2005|pp=232–233}}{{sfn|Cheterian|2015|pp=279–282}}{{sfn|de Waal|2015|pp=196–197}} During the conflict, the Azerbaijani and Armenian governments have regularly accused each other of plotting genocide.{{sfn|Bloxham|2005|pp=232–233}} Azerbaijan has also joined the Turkish effort to deny the Armenian genocide.{{sfn|Koinova|2017|p=122}}
===International recognition===
{{Main|Armenian genocide recognition}}
[[File:States recognising the Armenian Genocide.svg|thumb|upright=1.4|{{legend|green|National legislatures that have passed resolutions recognizing the Armenian genocide}}
{{legend|#D40000|States that deny there was an Armenian genocide}}|alt=see Commons description for full list of countries depicted]]
In response to continuing denial by the Turkish state, many Armenian diaspora activists have lobbied for formal recognition of the Armenian genocide, an effort that has become a central concern of the Armenian diaspora.{{sfn|Koinova|2017|pp=112, 221–222}}{{sfn|de Waal|2015|p=3}} From the 1970s onwards, many countries avoided recognition to preserve good relations with Turkey.{{sfn|Ben Aharon|2019|pp=340–341}} {{As of|2022}}, 31 countries have recognized the genocide, along with [[Pope Francis]] and the [[European Parliament]].{{sfn|Koinova|2017|p=117}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Countries that Recognize the Armenian Genocide |url=https://www.armenian-genocide.org/recognition_countries.html |website=[[Armenian National Institute]] |access-date=25 February 2021 |archive-date=14 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190914185246/https://www.armenian-genocide.org/recognition_countries.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
===Cultural depictions===
{{main|Armenian genocide in culture}}
After meeting Armenian survivors in the Middle East, Austrian–Jewish writer [[Franz Werfel]] wrote ''[[The Forty Days of Musa Dagh]]'' (1933), a fictionalized retelling of the successful Armenian uprising in [[Musa Dagh]], as a warning of the dangers of [[Nazism]].{{sfn|Ihrig|2016|pp=1–2}} According to Ihrig, the book is among the most important works of twentieth-century literature to address genocide and "is still considered essential reading for Armenians worldwide".{{sfn|Ihrig|2016|p=364}} The genocide became a central theme in English-language [[Armenian Americans#Arts and entertainment|Armenian-American literature]].{{sfn|Der Mugrdechian|2016|p=273}} The first film about the Armenian genocide, ''[[Ravished Armenia (film)|Ravished Armenia]],'' was released in 1919 as a fundraiser for Near East Relief, based on [[Ravished Armenia|the survival story]] of [[Aurora Mardiganian]], who played herself.{{sfn|Marsoobian|2016|pp=73–74}}{{sfn|Tusan|2014|pp=69–70}}{{sfn|de Waal|2015|pp=77–78}} Since then more films about the genocide have been made, although it took several decades for any of them to reach a mass-market audience.{{sfn|Marsoobian|2016|p=73}} The [[abstract expressionist]] paintings of [[Arshile Gorky]] were influenced by his experience of the genocide.{{sfn|Miller|2010|p=393}} More than [[List of Armenian genocide memorials|200 memorials]] have been erected in 32 countries to commemorate the event.<ref>{{cite web |title=Memorials to the Armenian Genocide |url=https://www.armenian-genocide.org/memorials.html |website=[[Armenian National Institute]] |access-date=25 February 2021 |archive-date=9 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809033251/http://www.armenian-genocide.org/memorials.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
=== Archives and historiography ===
{{see also|Kemalist historiography}}
The genocide is extensively documented in the archives of Germany, Austria, the United States, Russia, France, and the United Kingdom,{{sfn|Dadrian|Akçam|2011|p=4}} as well as the [[Ottoman archives]], despite [[Armenian genocide denial#Destruction and concealment of evidence|systematic purges of incriminating documents by Turkey]].{{sfn|Akçam|2012|pp=xxii–xxiii, 25–26}} There are also thousands of [[Witnesses and testimonies of the Armenian genocide|eyewitness accounts]] from Western missionaries and Armenian survivors.{{sfn|Bloxham|Göçek|2008|p=345}}{{sfn|Chorbajian|2016|p=168}}{{sfn|Akçam|2018|p=11}} Polish-Jewish lawyer [[Raphael Lemkin]], who coined the term ''[[genocide]]'' in 1944, became interested in war crimes after reading about the 1921 trial of Soghomon Tehlirian for the assassination of Talaat Pasha. Lemkin recognized the fate of the Armenians as one of the most significant genocides in the twentieth century.{{sfn|de Waal|2015|pp=132–133}}{{sfn|Ihrig|2016|pp=9, 370–371}} Almost all historians and scholars outside Turkey, and an increasing number of Turkish scholars, recognize the destruction of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide.{{sfn|Göçek|2015|p=1}}{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=374–375}}


== Notes ==
After the events of the expose the number of pedophiles and groomers definitely decreased, though as of now the amount of groomers in the community is definitely going back up, some would say that it is once more time for an expose like this.
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This expose would leave both [[Whenthe]] and [[Dogelore]] in a huge crisis, with Dogelore having a huge chunk of its moderation team being exposed as pedophiles (including the owner resigning), and with Whenthe's owner resigning after the fiasco.


== References ==
{{Reflist|19em}}


===Sources===
The expose itself was controversial, due to Penez having a small bout of retardation in that he would take ANY submission and/ or claims about pedophilia seriously (no matter how obviously false it was), and  
{{Main|Bibliography of the Armenian genocide}}
====Books====
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* {{cite book| last=Akçam| first=Taner| author-link=Taner Akçam|title=The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire| date=2012| publisher=[[Princeton University Press]]|isbn=978-0-691-15333-9|title-link=The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire}}
* {{cite book |last1=Akçam |first1=Taner|title-link=Killing Orders|title=Killing Orders: Talat Pasha's Telegrams and the Armenian Genocide |date=2018 |publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]] |isbn=978-3-319-69787-1  |language=en}}
* {{cite book |last1=Akçam |first1=Taner |last2=Kurt |first2=Ümit |author2-link=Ümit Kurt (historian) |title=The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide |date=2015 |publisher=[[Berghahn Books]] |isbn=978-1-78238-624-7}}
* {{cite book |last1=Bloxham |first1=Donald|author-link=Donald Bloxham |title=The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians|title-link=The Great Game of Genocide |date=2005 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19-927356-0 |language=en}}
* {{cite book |last1=Bozarslan |first1=Hamit |last2=Duclert |first2=Vincent |last3=Kévorkian |first3=Raymond H. |author1-link=:fr:Hamit Bozarslan |author2-link=:fr:Vincent Duclert |title=Comprendre le génocide des arméniens{{snd}}1915 à nos jours |date=2015 |publisher={{ill|Tallandier|fr|Éditions Tallandier}} |isbn=979-10-210-0681-2 |language=fr |trans-title=Understanding the Armenian genocide: 1915 to the present day|ref={{sfnref|Bozarslan et al.|2015}}}}
* {{cite book |last1=Cheterian |first1=Vicken|author-link=Vicken Cheterian |title=Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks and a Century of Genocide |date=2015 |publisher=[[Hurst Publishers|Hurst]] |isbn=978-1-84904-458-5 |language=en}}
* {{cite book |last1=Dadrian |first1=Vahakn N. |last2=Akçam |first2=Taner |author1-link=Vahakn Dadrian |title=Judgment at Istanbul: The Armenian Genocide Trials |date=2011 |publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=978-0-85745-286-3}}
* {{cite book |last1=de Waal |first1=Thomas |author1-link=Thomas de Waal |title=Great Catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-935069-8}}
* {{cite book |last1=Galip |first1=Özlem Belçim |title=New Social Movements and the Armenian Question in Turkey: Civil Society vs. the State |date=2020 |publisher=Springer International Publishing |isbn=978-3-030-59400-8}}
* {{cite book |last1=Gingeras |first1=Ryan |author1-link=Ryan Gingeras |title=Fall of the Sultanate: The Great War and the End of the Ottoman Empire 1908–1922 |date=2016 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-967607-1 |language=en}}
* {{cite book |last1=Göçek |first1=Fatma Müge |author1-link=Fatma Müge Göçek |title=Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present and Collective Violence Against the Armenians, 1789–2009 |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-933420-9  |title-link=Denial of Violence}}
* {{cite book|last=Ihrig|first=Stefan|author-link=Stefan Ihrig|date=2016|title=Justifying Genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler|title-link=Justifying Genocide|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]|isbn=978-0-674-50479-0}}
* {{cite book |last1=Kévorkian |first1=Raymond |author1-link=Raymond Kévorkian |title=The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History|title-link=The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History |date=2011 |publisher=[[I.B. Tauris]] |isbn=978-0-85771-930-0 |language=en}}
* {{cite book |last1=Kieser |first1=Hans-Lukas |author1-link=Hans-Lukas Kieser |title=[[Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide]] |date=2018 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-1-4008-8963-1 }}
* {{cite book |last1=Morris |first1=Benny|author-link=Benny Morris |last2=Ze'evi |first2=Dror|author2-link=Dror Ze'evi |title=The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924|title-link=The Thirty-Year Genocide |date=2019 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-91645-6}}
* {{cite book |last1=Nichanian |first1=Mikaël |author1-link=:fr:Mikaël Nichanian |title=Détruire les Arméniens. Histoire d'un génocide |date=2015 |publisher=[[Presses Universitaires de France]] |isbn=978-2-13-062617-6 |language=fr|trans-title=Destroying the Armenians: History of a Genocide}}
* {{cite book |last1=Payaslian |first1=Simon|author-link=Simon Payaslian |title=The History of Armenia: From the Origins to the Present |date=2007 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-1-4039-7467-9 }}
* {{cite book |last1=Rogan |first1=Eugene |author1-link=Eugene Rogan |title=The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East |date=2015 |publisher=[[Basic Books]] |isbn=978-0-465-05669-9}}
* {{cite book |last1=Suciyan |first1=Talin |title=The Armenians in Modern Turkey: Post-Genocide Society, Politics and History |date=2015 |publisher=I.B. Tauris |isbn=978-0-85772-773-2 }}
* {{cite book |last1=Suny |first1=Ronald Grigor|author-link=Ronald Grigor Suny |title="They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide|title-link=They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else |date=2015 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-1-4008-6558-1}}
* {{cite book|last1=Üngör|first1=Uğur Ümit|last2=Polatel|first2=Mehmet|author-link1=Uğur Ümit Üngör|author-link2=|title=Confiscation and Destruction: The Young Turk Seizure of Armenian Property|year=2011|publisher=[[Continuum International Publishing Group|Continuum]]|isbn=978-1-4411-3578-0}}
{{refend}}


====Chapters====
as a result "expose" people who weren't even pedophiles or were just attention-seekers wanting a piece of the action. As a result, many people started stabbing their peers in the back, and planting false evidence/  
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* {{cite book |last1=Ahmed |first1=Ali |title=Encyclopedia of the Developing World |date=2006 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=978-1-57958-388-0 |pages=1575–1578 |language=en |chapter=Turkey}}
* {{cite book |last1=Anderson |first1=Margaret Lavinia|author-link=Margaret L. Anderson  |title=A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire |title-link=A Question of Genocide|date=2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-539374-3  |language=en |chapter=Who Still Talked about the Extermination of the Armenians?|pages=199–217}}
* {{cite book |last1=Astourian |first1=Stephan|chapter=The Silence of the Land: Agrarian Relations, Ethnicity, and Power|pages=55–81 |title=A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire|date=2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-539374-3}}
* {{cite book |last1=Bloxham |first1=Donald |last2=Göçek |first2=Fatma Müge |title=The Historiography of Genocide |date=2008 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |isbn=978-0-230-29778-4 |pages=344–372 |language=en |chapter=The Armenian Genocide}}
* {{cite book |last1=Chorbajian |first1=Levon |author-link1=Levon Chorbajian |title=The Armenian Genocide Legacy |date=2016 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |isbn=978-1-137-56163-3 |pages=167–182 |language=en |chapter='They Brought It on Themselves and It Never Happened': Denial to 1939}}
* {{cite book |last1=Cora |first1=Yaşar Tolga |title=Not All Quiet on the Ottoman Fronts: Neglected Perspectives on a Global War, 1914–1918 |date=2020 |publisher=Ergon-Verlag |isbn=978-3-95650-777-9 |pages=49–72 |chapter=Towards a Social History of the Ottoman War Economy: Manufacturing and Armenian Forced Skilled-Laborers}}
* {{cite book |last1=Der Mugrdechian |first1=Barlow|author-link=Barlow Der Mugrdechian |title=The Armenian Genocide Legacy |date=2016 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |isbn=978-1-137-56163-3 |pages=273–286 |language=en |chapter=The Theme of Genocide in Armenian Literature}}
* {{cite book |last1=Dündar |first1=Fuat|author-link=Fuat Dündar |title=A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire|date=2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-539374-3  |language=en |chapter=Pouring a People into the Desert: The "Definitive Solution" of the Unionists to the Armenian Question|pages=276–286}}
* {{cite book |last1=Göçek |first1=Fatma Müge|chapter=Reading Genocide: Turkish Historiography on 1915|pages=42–52 |title=A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire |date=2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-539374-3}}
* {{cite book |last1=Kaiser |first1=Hilmar |authorlink=Hilmar Kaiser |title=The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies |publisher= Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-923211-6 |language=en |chapter=Genocide at the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire|date= 2010|pages=365–385}}
* {{cite book |last1=Kaligian |first1=Dikran  |title=Genocide in the Ottoman Empire: Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, 1913–1923 |date=2017 |publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=978-1-78533-433-7 |language=en |chapter=Convulsions at the End of Empire: Thrace, Asia Minor, and the Aegean|pages=82–104}}
* {{cite book |last1=Kévorkian |first1=Raymond |title=Destruction and Human Remains: Disposal and Concealment in Genocide and Mass Violence |date=2014 |publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=978-1-84779-906-7 |pages=89–116 |chapter-url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1wn0s3n.9 |language=en |chapter=Earth, Fire, Water: or How to Make the Armenian Corpses Disappear |jstor=j.ctt1wn0s3n.9 |access-date=<!-- none --> |archive-date=16 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416013901/https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1wn0s3n.9 |url-status=dead }}
* {{cite book |last1=Kévorkian |first1=Raymond |title=Collective and State Violence in Turkey: The Construction of a National Identity from Empire to Nation-State |date=2020 |publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=978-1-78920-451-3  |pages=147–173 |language=en |chapter=The Final Phase: The Cleansing of Armenian and Greek Survivors, 1919–1922}}
* {{cite book |last1=Kieser |first1=Hans-Lukas |last2=Bloxham |first2=Donald |title=[[The Cambridge History of the First World War]]: Volume 1: Global War |date=2014 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=978-0-511-67566-9 |pages=585–614 |chapter=Genocide}}
* {{cite book |last1=Koinova |first1=Maria |title=Diaspora as Cultures of Cooperation: Global and Local Perspectives |date=2017 |publisher=Springer International Publishing |isbn=978-3-319-32892-8 |pages=111–129 |language=en |chapter=Conflict and Cooperation in Armenian Diaspora Mobilisation for Genocide Recognition}}
* {{cite book |last1=Leonard |first1=Thomas C. |title=America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915 |date=2004 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-82958-8 |pages=294–308 |chapter=When news is not enough: American media and Armenian deaths}}
* {{cite book |last1=Maksudyan |first1=Nazan |author1-link=Nazan Maksudyan |title=Gendering Global Humanitarianism in the Twentieth Century: Practice, Politics and the Power of Representation |date=2020 |publisher=Springer International Publishing |isbn=978-3-030-44630-7 |pages=117–142 |language=en |chapter=The Orphan Nation: Gendered Humanitarianism for Armenian Survivor Children in Istanbul, 1919–1922}}
* {{cite book |last1=Marsoobian |first1=Armen|authorlink=Armen T. Marsoobian |title=The History of Genocide in Cinema: Atrocities on Screen |date=2016 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-78673-047-3 |pages=73–86 |language=en |chapter=The Armenian Genocide in Film: Overcoming Denial and Loss}}
* {{cite book |last1=Mouradian |first1=Khatchig|author-link=Khatchig Mouradian  |title=Internment during the First World War: A Mass Global Phenomenon |date=2018 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-315-22591-3 |pages=145–161 |language=en |chapter=Internment and destruction: Concentration camps during the Armenian genocide, 1915–16}}
* {{cite book |last=Üngör |first=Uğur Ümit |title=Holocaust and Other Genocides |date=2012 |publisher=[[NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies]] / Amsterdam University Press |isbn=978-90-4851-528-8 |pages=45–72 |url=https://www.niod.nl/sites/niod.nl/files/Holocaust%20and%20other%20genocides.pdf |language=en |chapter=The Armenian Genocide, 1915 |chapter-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508050001/https://www.niod.nl/sites/niod.nl/files/Armenian%20genocide.pdf |access-date=3 July 2021 |archive-date=25 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210425062732/https://www.niod.nl/sites/niod.nl/files/Holocaust%20and%20other%20genocides.pdf |url-status=dead }}
* {{cite book |last1=Üngör |first1=Uğur Ümit |title=The Armenian Genocide Legacy |date=2016 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |isbn=978-1-137-56163-3 |pages=11–25 |language=en |chapter=The Armenian Genocide in the Context of 20th-Century Paramilitarism}}
* {{cite book|last=Zürcher|first=Erik Jan|author-link=Erik Jan Zürcher|chapter=Renewal and Silence: Postwar Unionist and Kemalist Rhetoric on the Armenian Genocide|pages=306–316 |title=A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire |date=2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-539374-3}}
{{refend}}


====Journal articles====
claims of pedophilia and sexual degeneracy on them just for the smallest smidge of fame. Independent fact-checkers and peer-reviewed papers and journals have compared this to the Salem Witch Trials, McCarthyism, and the Red Chinese Cultural Revolution due to the fact that so many friendships and connections were ruined (and still are to this day) in an attempt for attention.  
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* {{cite journal |last1=Akçam |first1=Taner |title=When Was the Decision to Annihilate the Armenians Taken? |journal=[[Journal of Genocide Research]] |date=2019 |volume=21 |issue=4 |pages=457–480 |doi=10.1080/14623528.2019.1630893 |s2cid=<!--  --> }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Ben Aharon |first1=Eldad |title=Recognition of the Armenian Genocide after its Centenary: A Comparative Analysis of Changing Parliamentary Positions |journal=[[Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs]] |date=2019 |volume=13 |issue=3 |pages=339–352 |doi=10.1080/23739770.2019.1737911 |doi-access=free }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Bjørnlund |first1=Matthias|authorlink=Matthias Bjørnlund|title=The 1914 cleansing of Aegean Greeks as a case of violent Turkification |journal=Journal of Genocide Research |date=2008 |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=41–58 |doi=10.1080/14623520701850286 |s2cid=<!--  --> }}
* {{cite journal |last1= Ekmekçioğlu |first1=Lerna|author-link= Lerna Ekmekçioğlu |title=A Climate for Abduction, a Climate for Redemption: The Politics of Inclusion during and after the Armenian Genocide |journal=[[Comparative Studies in Society and History]] |date=2013 |volume=55 |issue=3 |pages=522–553 |doi=10.1017/S0010417513000236 |jstor=23526015 |hdl=1721.1/88911 |s2cid=<!--  --> |hdl-access=free }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Kaiser |first1=Hilmar |title=Financing the Ruling Party and Its Militants in Wartime:The Armenian Genocide and the Kemah Massacres of 1915 |journal=[[Études arméniennes contemporaines]] |date=2019 |issue=12 |pages=7–31 |doi=10.4000/eac.1942 |doi-access=free }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Kurt |first1=Ümit |title=Cultural Erasure: The Absorption and Forced Conversion of Armenian Women and Children, 1915–1916 |journal=Études arméniennes contemporaines |date=2016 |issue=7 |doi=10.4000/eac.997 |doi-access=free }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Miller |first1=Angela |title=Achilles the Bitter: Gorky and the Genocide |journal=Oxford Art Journal |date=2010 |volume=33 |issue=3 |pages=392–396 |doi=10.1093/oxartj/kcq025 }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Shirinian |first1=George N. |title=Starvation and Its Political Use in the Armenian Genocide |journal=Genocide Studies International |date=2017 |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=8–37 |id={{Project MUSE|680838}} |doi=10.3138/gsi.11.1.01 |s2cid=<!--  --> }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Tusan |first1=Michelle |title='Crimes against Humanity': Human Rights, the British Empire, and the Origins of the Response to the Armenian Genocide |journal=[[The American Historical Review]] |date=2014 |volume=119 |issue=1 |pages=47–77 |doi=10.1093/ahr/119.1.47 |doi-access=free }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Watenpaugh |first1=Keith David |authorlink=Keith David Watenpaugh |title='Are There Any Children for Sale?': Genocide and the Transfer of Armenian Children (1915–1922) |journal=[[Journal of Human Rights]] |date=2013 |volume=12 |issue=3 |pages=283–295 |doi=10.1080/14754835.2013.812410 |s2cid=<!--  --> }}
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Nonetheless, the Great Penez Expose was considered an overall success by aforementioned independent fact-checkers and peer-reviewed papers and journos, as many pedophiles were forced from their positions of power, and many more fled due to fear of being exposed. In fact, some scientists have claimed that the total number of child grooming incidents has gone down drastically ever since. While the exact number is unknown, it is estimated that hundreds, perhaps thousands of innocent children were saved from grooming due to the events of this day.


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Latest revision as of 18:27, 14 October 2023

For a couple years since its inception, the irony community had become a place for many members, usually those being relatively sane and normal people. Many of these members were quite young; most communities had a median age of 15 to 14 years at this point. It was understandable in all honesty: memes, reddit, it all attracts youngsters. But some wanted to use their staff power to exploit that for their own terrible pedophilic desires, and this had already happened before. Constant groomers, pedophiles and so on. There would not be many people that would want to clean this up, besides one well-known member of the community, known as Doctor Penez. Noone would do anything significant for around three years of the Ironysphere's existence, besides Penez. Who on July 10th on his personal discord server would announce that he would start exposing every pedophile within the sphere, Dogelore, Whenthe, OkBuddyRetard, any every single irony meme server, and any other discord server that had strong proof of being infested by pedophilia.

Every single discord server would have to be cleansed off the evil internet groomers. He would ask members of his community to help with this channel, and to dm him any proof that a member, or staff member of the Ironysphere was a pedophile or groomer. Thus, it all began, some would think that this was a bluff and went about their business. However, on July 11th it would truly occur. It was time for the great 2020 expose to begin. Hundreds would join Penez's livestream to see everything unfold...

Target One - Mason[edit | edit source]

Truly a man of Our Generation.

The first target of the expose was Mason, a former OkBR2 staff member. Mason was not a subreddit staff member, he was not even very interested with the subreddit itself. In fact, he was a "discord mod for hire (by that I mean for free lol)." But as the OKBR2/ Whenthe staff would find out, nothing is EVER for free, and that Mason was in fact spending his life being a discord janitor for the sole purpose of GROOMING and PEDOPHILIA. Mason would be previously banned on different discord servers for "multiple accounts of the defense of Loli Porn, multiple attempts to solicit nudes from random girls, odd comments aimed at girls younger than him, and making other people extremely uncomfortable. Mason would be banned off every single discord server, including Whenthe (old OkBR2). However, this expose was not enough to fully get rid of him, his account is still up, and he would be spotted in Irony Hub around two years ago. He would quickly leave after joining though.

Target Two - HHH[edit | edit source]

The second victim of this expose would be Hhh. When this expose was happening, Hhh was still the owner of Dogelore; he would be made the owner of Dogelore after the events of The Dogelore Civil War. Hhh did not care much about the server and would barely contribute. Hhh would be exposed with leaked snapchat, and discord screenshots. After these screenshots were shown to the entirety of the Ironysphere, Hhh was forced to resign and leave Dogelore forever. He would be mass reported and tried rejoining the server on one occasion, but as of now it seems he is fully gone.

Gallery[edit | edit source]

  • Wholesome Comment
    Wholesome Comment
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    Snapchat Screenshot #1
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    Snapchat Screenshot #2
  • "The Game"
    "The Game"
  • "Also the owner posted nudes of himself in mod chat"
    "Also the owner posted nudes of himself in mod chat"
  • Ignoring Pedo Reports
    Ignoring Pedo Reports
  • Cock Pic (DO NOT RESEARCH)
    Cock Pic (DO NOT RESEARCH)
Wholesome JB Waffle Moment!

Target Three - JB[edit | edit source]

The JB-Wafflez Fiasco is a known event in the Whenthe community as it was somewhat major and led to SquidPlumber resigning and them losing hope in the server. It all began with the leaked screenshots of JB and Waffle E-sexting each other and doing other weird things being sent to Penez. JB would become an unregistered sex offender at the age of 17, asking his 15 year old "friend" for his nudes. This would end up with Doctor Penez (whom JB unironically hated for no reason other than everyone else hating him) exposing him for his crimes. According to some unreliable sources, his face would also end up being leaked and he "committed suicide (for those new to the internet, logging off for 2 weeks is considered self-deletion for the terminally online)". This again would lead to SquidPlumber resigning and giving their ownership to Thee_Realist.

Target Four - Miarasu / Gentle Criminal[edit | edit source]

Porn Addiction

The fourth victim of the Penez Expose would be Miarasu, a furry porn addict. Unlike many people his age, Miarasu or "Gentle Criminal" would live to half his name and begin grooming little children and become a sex offender before the age of eighteen! On one occasion he would go into an innocent users' direct messages and ask them "if they know how to masturbate." He would also send loli porn into random people's DMs. According to some people around him, Miarasu also had an obsession with an electric Pokémon called "Shinx". Which pretty much looks like some sort of cub. There was also a screenshot in which he sent a shinx sucking on another Pokémon's MASSIVE penis. According to some of his close friends he was also playing Minecraft with a seven-year-old girl for no reason at all; he sent her gay loli pornography in her DMs and proceeded to brag about it. This manmade creation of derangement, porn addiction, discord addiction, and every single weird thing on the internet would also end up being doxxed and all of his internet degeneracy would be emailed to his mother. His account was promptly deleted, and he has not been heard from since.

Gallery[edit | edit source]

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Would you consider this a rightful action?

Target Five - Dkaih[edit | edit source]

Dkaih35, the founder of Irony Hub. Beloved by many, but also Penez's main enemy. However, Dkaih had a few issues. He was caught expressing his lust for a 17-year-old anime femboy, and his second problem was that he was caught "rubbing his balls" onto a livestream in front of mostly minor Irony Hub admins whilst discussing the server's next plan of action... All it takes to ruin someone's internet discord career is one ball rub on a livestream... After this incident Dkaih was forced to resign and delete all his social media, although he would eventually rejoin Irony Hub, become a admin, and delete half the server before being FIRED.

Target Six - Onyx[edit | edit source]

When the expose was happening, one of the moderators of Dogelore called Onyx would also be exposed together with Hhh, they really would just be exposed for many weird comments towards a few users and weird e-sex roleplay messages. Onyx was also caught lusting over minors, and was FIRED for continuing the old discord tradition of GROOMING children online.

Gallery[edit | edit source]

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Imagine another pedophile being horrified about your behavior. Or maybe it's just another case of getting rid of the competition?

Target Seven - Tsumugi (35 Years old)[edit | edit source]

Once more, a Dogelore staff member by the name of Tsumugi. Despite being a 35 year old man, he would say things like "as long as your 16+ it doesn't matter", "I wanted the kid to get r**ped in the car", and generally act like a pedophile, this got to the point where one of the people who were exposed before (onyx) was actually horrified in one of the screenshots sent to Penez.

This man is 35 years old.

Aftermath[edit | edit source]

After the events of the expose the number of pedophiles and groomers definitely decreased, though as of now the amount of groomers in the community is definitely going back up, some would say that it is once more time for an expose like this. This expose would leave both Whenthe and Dogelore in a huge crisis, with Dogelore having a huge chunk of its moderation team being exposed as pedophiles (including the owner resigning), and with Whenthe's owner resigning after the fiasco.


The expose itself was controversial, due to Penez having a small bout of retardation in that he would take ANY submission and/ or claims about pedophilia seriously (no matter how obviously false it was), and

as a result "expose" people who weren't even pedophiles or were just attention-seekers wanting a piece of the action. As a result, many people started stabbing their peers in the back, and planting false evidence/

claims of pedophilia and sexual degeneracy on them just for the smallest smidge of fame. Independent fact-checkers and peer-reviewed papers and journals have compared this to the Salem Witch Trials, McCarthyism, and the Red Chinese Cultural Revolution due to the fact that so many friendships and connections were ruined (and still are to this day) in an attempt for attention.


Nonetheless, the Great Penez Expose was considered an overall success by aforementioned independent fact-checkers and peer-reviewed papers and journos, as many pedophiles were forced from their positions of power, and many more fled due to fear of being exposed. In fact, some scientists have claimed that the total number of child grooming incidents has gone down drastically ever since. While the exact number is unknown, it is estimated that hundreds, perhaps thousands of innocent children were saved from grooming due to the events of this day.

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