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 nationalistic Young Turks movement took power and issued orders for the deportation of its Christian subjects, resulting in the death of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians. These events have been recognized as “genocide” by dozens of countries, but are still vigorously 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 nationalistic Young Turks movement took power and issued orders for the deportation of its Christian subjects, resulting in the death of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians. These events have been recognized as “genocide” by dozens of countries, but are still vigorously rejected by the Turkish government.