In 1890, the Ottoman Empire lived 2.5 million Armenians. Russian Empire and the Armenian community supports their efforts for autonomy since in this way Russia aims to weaken the Ottoman state. Due to the rapid growth of the movement for autonomy Sultan Abdul Hamid II take actions that hold power over the territories inhabited by Armenians.
In their attempts to rekindle a conflict Porte incites Kurdish population against their neighbors the Armenians. After the massacre of the Armenians, Kurds uprising, which was suppressed by regular Turkish army and Kurdish irregulars. During the suppression of the uprising in 1894 killed 50,000 Armenians are very keen villages. The degree of fault of the Turkish government in these events is not well understood and is the subject of controversy. Two years later, Armenian revolutionaries seized the building of the "Ottoman Bank" in Istanbul to attract international attention to the plight of his people in the Ottoman Empire.
Second pogrom of Armenians [edit]



Remains of murdered Armenians in Erzincan. Similar views can be seen throughout Armenia [2]


December Rafael Nogales Méndez (1879-1936), Venezuelan officer in the Turkish army wrote his testimony of the massacre in his book "Cuatro años bajo la media luna (four years under the crescent)