ABSTRACT
The genocide of the Christians of the Ottoman Empire is generally acknowledged as the first modern genocide. Genocide was committed against the Christian populations of the Ottoman Empire by the regime of the Committee of Union and Progress, also known as the Young Turks, in April 24, 1915. The Ottoman Armenians, encouraged by this, hoped that an alteration to their status as second-class citizens might follow; consequently, a number of petitions were sent to the office of the Grand Vizier in Constantinople requesting protection from Turkish violence and ill-treatment in the provinces. Morgenthau's descriptions vividly exposed, in no-nonsense language, the nature and extent of Turkish measures against the Armenian people, and the experience left him exhausted and dispirited. The Assyrian Genocide, or Seyfo, took place at the hands of the Young Turks alongside the genocides of the Armenians and Greeks during and after the First World War.
