Kathryn Cook

Memory of Trees

A photo taken during the Armenian deportations from Turkey shows a line of people on their way through the desert heading to Aleppo, Syria. As the Ottoman Empire disintegrated, the new nationalistic "Young Turks" government took power and issued orders for the deportation of hundreds of thousands of its Christian subjects and resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians. These atrocities have been recognized "genocide" by dozens of countries, but is still rejected by the Turkish government.
A photo taken during the Armenian deportations from Turkey shows a line of people on their way through the desert heading to Aleppo, Syria. As the Ottoman Empire disintegrated, the new nationalistic "Young Turks" government took power and issued orders for the deportation of hundreds of thousands of its Christian subjects and resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians. These atrocities have been recognized "genocide" by dozens of countries, but is still rejected by the Turkish government.