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Historian Raymond Kévorkian presents a brief historical outline of the five distinct phases that constituted the Young Turk regime’s systematic campaign to eradicate the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-1916.
Dr. Raymond Kévorkian is a French Armenian historian and author of The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History. His writings and research focus on the events of the Armenian Genocide, its impact on the surviving Armenian communities across the diaspora and in the formation of the Turkish state. For many years, Dr. Kévorkian served as the director of the AGBU Nubarian Library in Paris. In 2010, Dr. Kévorkian received the Presidential Award from Armenian President Serge Sargsyan in recognition of his enormous contributions to Armenian studies. He is a member of Société de Géographie, a board member of International Association for Armenian Studies, and a foreign member the Armenian National Academy of Sciences.
