View of Trabzon during the Armenian Genocide, Turkey, 1916 (b/w photo)

Turks hunting the Armenians in Trabzon, Turkey, July 1916. The Armenian Genocide / Armenian Holocaust / Massacres or "Medz Yeghern" was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of its minority Armenian subjects inside their historic homeland, which lies within the present-day Republic of Turkey. The number of victims is estimated at between 800,000 and 1.5 million. The starting date is conventionally held to be 24 April 1915, the day Ottoman authorities rounded up, arrested, and deported some 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders from Constantinople to Ankara, the majority of whom were eventually murdered.