The Great Crime: A Podcast History of the Armenian Genocide

The guns of August are heard around the world. When the Ottomans finally enter the First World War, Enver Pasha’s arrogance will lead to a disastrous and humiliating catastrophe in the Caucasus.

The world sleepwalks to war. And as Russia presses for an Armenian reform plan, the CUP begins its brutal Turkification experiment on the Empire’s Greeks.

Liberty, equality, and pluralism have failed. All that’s left is paranoia and a siege mentality. As a new ideology rises, the Committee of Union and Progress and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation finally part ways.

A string of coups, counter-coups, subverted elections, and disastrous foreign defeats chip away at the Ottoman Empire, setting the Committee of Union and Progress on the path to authoritarianism.

April 1909. A moment of fracture and violence. As the forces of reaction move against the Committee of Union and Progress, the Armenians of Adana suffer terribly...

In July 1908, the chains of Hamidian oppression were shattered by revolution. A new constitution was inaugurated, and a truly representative parliament called to order...

Opposition to the Sultan's dictatorship takes many forms at the turn of the century. One group grows dominant, and together with radical Armenians, they will try and drag a 500-year-old Empire into the modern age.

Between 1894 and 1896, an unprecedented wave of violence bloodied the Armenians - a significant prelude to the Armenian Genocide.

Amid the chaos and decay of Ottoman life, a new Sultan came to power. And when appeals to the Great Powers failed, Armenian activists began to agitate for armed revolution...

The Ottoman Empire begins to succumb to the pressure of nationalist movements and an aggressive Russia. For the Armenians, this new age is both inspiring, and dangerous...