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Armenian Genocide - The Red Sunday

Time: Friday Apr 23, 1915

Place: Ankara, Turkey (then Ottoman Empire)

Details: On the night of 23–24 April 1915, known as Red Sunday, the Ottoman government rounded up and imprisoned an estimated 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders of the Ottoman capital, Constantinople, and later those in other centers, who were moved to two holding centers near Angora (Ankara).

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