In 1915, Ottoman Empire eliminated 1.5 million Armenians in three years. They arrested intellectuals, executed men, and forced women and children into desert death marches. Interior Minister Talat Pasha directed the massacres by telegraph. Two thousand years of civilization erased. Turkey still denies it was genocide. #armeniangenocide #ottomanhistory #historytok #armenianhistory #genocide | Pyramid Secrets

The Ottoman Empire lasted for over 600 years and stretched across Europe, Asia, and Africa. But behind the glory of its palaces, armies, and mosques was a system built on human lives. Millions of people were enslaved under Ottoman rule. Slavic men and women, Greeks, Armenians, Arabs, Africans — no group was safe. Even Christian boys were taken from their families in a system called the Devshirme, known as the “child tax.” These boys were forced to convert to Islam and trained for the empire’s ne