Armenian Genocide - A Series of reforms designed to improve the status of minorities

Time: 1876

Place: Turkey (Then Ottoman Empire)

Details: In the mid-19th century, the three major European powers, Great Britain, France and Russia, began to question the Ottoman Empire's treatment of its Christian minorities and pressure it to grant equal rights to all its subjects. From 1839 to the declaration of a constitution in 1876, the Ottoman government instituted the Tanzimat, a series of reforms designed to improve the status of minorities.

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