ABSTRACT
Some major events in history: 1915, in response to the independence movement the Ottoman Empire kills more than 1 million Armenians in massacres and forced deportations; 1918, Armenia becomes an independent republic; 1918-20, at war with Azerbaijan and Turkey; 1920, made part of the Soviet Union; 1923, Stalin draws the current borders that places Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan (FT, 29 October 1999, p. 9). There are thought to be some 3.5 million Armenians in the diaspora, the trigger for which was the massacres of 1915 perpetrated by the Ottoman Turks (FT, Survey, 7 June 1995, p. 38).
