-Ernest Hemingway
In 1915, during WWI, leaders of the Ottoman government set in motion a plan to expel and massacre Armenians.
In September of 1922, the city of Smyrna was burned by Turkish forces.
In 1919, hundreds of unarmed, peaceful civilians in Punjab were murdered in the Amritsar Massacre.
On April 24, 1916, Easter Monday, Irish Republican rebels began an armed revolt to further the cause of Irish independence.