Sentences with phrase «armenian massacre»
In 1915, fleeing on foot to Yerevan in Russian Armenia, the family survive the Turkish Armenian massacre, only for his mother to eventually die of starvation in her son's arms.
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As mostly refugees, like Arshile Gorky from the Armenian massacre, the New York School also brought past art with them — a reminder that if you ever hear a popular critic reviving the myth of America as a blank slate that never «got» Europe, forget»em.
A-list cast can't quite make this attempt to be the «Doctor Zhivago» of 1915 Armenian massacre come together
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The Armenian Genocide is one of the most tragic stories of the 20th century as the Turks massacred an estimated 1 million Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire.
A secret is uncovered that links the two families and ties them to the 1915 Armenian deportations and massacres.
The Bastard of Istanbul , Elif Shafak's sixth novel and the second written in English, was an instant bestseller in Turkey and got her indicted for denigrating Turkishness, code for openly discussing the Armenian diaspora and the 1915 massacre, a taboo subject in Turkey.
Born circa 1904 in the village of Khorkom in an Armenian province of Ottoman Turkey, Gorky witnessed the massacre of his community, the minority Armenians, by Turkish troops in 1915.
A variety of unexpected problems [have] made it impractical to stage the contest, including the Egyptian Revolution, the Iranian Revolution, the Iraqi Revolution, the Dhofar Rebellion, the Adwan Rebellion, the Ararat Rebellion, the Dersim Rebellion, World Wars I and II, the Arab - Israeli Wars, the Iran - Iraq War, the Anglo - Iraqi War, the Franco - Syrian War, the Saudi - Yemeni War, the Lebanese Civil War, the Syrian Civil War, the Yemeni Civil Wars, the Suez Crisis, the Siege of Mecca, several intifadas, Operation Ajax, Operation Desert Shield, Operation Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom, the assassination of King Abdullah I of Jordan, the assassination of Anwar Sadat, the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the assassination of Rafic Hariri, the assassinations of numerous Iraqi and Iranian prime ministers, the Armenian Genocide, the Assyrian Genocide, several genocides targeting the Kurds and Yazidis, the Semele Massacre, the Hama Massacre, the Mecca Massacre, the bombing of the King David Hotel, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, a combined total of over 14 coups d'etat, and inclement weather, among other causes.