Political with some commentary. yes, one is also on the touristy site. Just shows you that classification is an inexact science. (Yes, that was what I studied in University many, many years ago!)
I said I would post the Armenian Genocide Poster text:
see also:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide
RECOGNITION, CONDEMNATION, PREVENTION
The Armenian Genocide is a term used to designate a series of crimes and atrocities committed against the Armenian people during WW1. The events were centrally planned and administered by the Turkish government against the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire.
Between the years 1915 and 1923 the Armenian people were subjected to mass deportation from their ancestral homeland of Armenia and other parts of the Ottoman Empire. The Turkish authorities also carried out deliberate starvation of the deportees, systematic massacres along the deportation routes, and the government sanctioned rape of men, women and children as well as the forced Islamization of orphaned children.
In addition to efforts to annihilate the Armenians, the entire national wealth of the Armenian population was looted by the Turks or confiscated by Ottoman authorities through the enactment of "abandoned properties" laws applicable specifically to Armenians.
The decision to implement the crime of genocide against the Armenian people was made by the Committee of Union and Progress, also known as the Young Turks, the political party that ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1908 to 1918. In addition to avert actions of Young Turk officials with armed elements of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of the Interior, Turkish authorities created a secret outfit called the Special Organization (Teshkilati Mahsusa) whose primary functions were to carry out the deportation and mass slaughter of the Armenians.
The Turkish Nationalists between 1920 and 1923 perpetrated further massacres, expulsions, and depredations of the surviving Armenians. The Kemalist government who toppled the Young Turks and represented a new political movement, shared the common ideology of the Ottoman Empire and the Young Turks to create a new Turkey built on the ashes of over 1.5 million Armenians and their homeland that had been Armenian for the previous 3000 years.
To this day, the Turkish government has denied the genocide, and the crime remains unpunished.
APRIL 24 - THE MEMORIAL DAY OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
LEGEND OF THE MAP
Red coloured circles: Relative number of Armenians massacred (exact figures are not known)
small red circle: Deportation control center
circle: Deportation concentration and annihilation centers
tiny circle: Deportation stations
Areas of greater or lesser Armenian resistance
red arrows: Major and minor deportation route
dotted arrows: Armenian and Assyrian escape routes
Blue crosses: Localities where the Constantinople Armenian intellectuals were murdered.
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