Street in the Christian Quarter of Adana
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Date
June 1909
Description
A ruined street in the Christian quarter of Adana, Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of the Armenian massacres of 1909. Approximately 20,000 Armenians were killed in the wave of violence following an attempted coup by Ottoman reactionaries. This event was part of a larger process of ethnic cleansing which saw Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Kurds, and Jews targeted by massacres, pogroms, and deportations in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic.
Type
Photograph
Region
Global
Era
Turn of the Century and WWI
Topic
Genocide, Global History and Geography
Repository
Identifier
2014696598
Source
Bain News Service Photograph Collection. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
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