[[Fail:Morgenthau336.jpg|thumb|Mayat orang kaum Armenia bergelimpangan di [[Ankara]] saat berlakunya genosid ini.<nowiki><br></nowiki>[Gambar bertarikh tahun 1915, daripada buku autobiografi bertajuk ''Ambassador [[Henry Morgenthau Sr.|Morgenthau]]'s Story''<nowiki>]</nowiki>|alt=|409x409px]]
'''Genosid'''['''a'''] '''Armenia''' atau '''penghapusan [[Orang Armenia|etnik Armenia]]''' ({{lang-hy|Հայոց ցեղասպանություն}} {{lang-hy|script=Latn|label=none|Hayots tseghaspanutyun}}) dilakukan oleh kerajaan [[Turki]] dari tahun [[1915]]-1917 semasa [[Empayar Uthmaniyah|Empayar Turki Uthmaniyah]]. Ia melibatkan penangkapan serta penahanan ratusan hingga ribuan dari 1.5 juta penduduk kaum Armenia dari serata empayar Uthmaniyah di mana mereka disamun, dibunuh mahupun dirogol.<ref>{{Citation|first1=Hans-Lukas|last1=Kieser|first2=Dominik J.|last2=Schaller|language=German|title=Der Völkermord an den Armeniern und die Shoah|trans-title=TheGenosida Armenian genocide and thedan [[Holokus|Shoah]]|publisher=Chronos|year=2002|isbn=3-0340-0561-X|page=114}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=Armenia: The Survival of A Nation|first=Christopher J.|last=Walker|publisher=Croom Helm|place=London|year=1980|pages=200–03}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, 1915–1916: Documents Presented to Viscount Grey of Falloden|first1=Viscount James|last1=Bryce|authorlink=James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce Pertama|first2=Arnold|last2=Toynbee|edition=uncensored|editor-first=Ara|editor-last=Sarafian|place=Princeton, [[New Jersey|NJ]]|publisher=Gomidas|year=2000|isbn=0-9535191-5-5|pages=635–649}}</ref>
Kes ini dianggap sebagai penghapusan etnik yang pertama dilakukan secara sistematik pada zaman moden ini. Malah, konsep suatu "[[genosida]]" mula digunakan bagi menggambarkan kejadian besar ini oleh para pengkajinya, terutamanya oleh [[Raphael Lemkin]], seorang peguam dan cendekiawan pada sekitar 1943 ke 1944.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300186963/totally-unofficial|title=Totally Unofficial: The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2013|isbn=9780300186963|place=New Haven and London|pages=19–20}}[https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10008187 The Armenian Genocide (1915–16): Overview], ''[[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]]''</ref><ref>{{sfnCitation |last=Ishay |first=Micheline R. |title=The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era |publisher=Berkeley (CA): University of California Press |year=2008|ref=harv}}</ref>{{sfnrp|140}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Jenkins |first=Bruce |year=2008 |ptitle=140The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia—and How It Died |location=New York |publisher=HarperOne |isbn=978-0-06-147280-0 |ref=harv}}</ref><ref name="cnn">{{Citation|last=Hyde|first=Jennifer|title=Polish Jew gave his life defining, fighting genocide|url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/11/13/sbm.lemkin.profile/index.html|publisher=[[CNN]]|date=2 Disember 2008-12-02|accessdate=2 Februari 2008-12-02}}</ref><ref name="USHMMWhatis?">{{cite web|url=https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007043|title=What is Genocide?|work=Holocaust Encyclopedia|publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum|accessdate=7 FebruaryFebruari 2017|quote=In 1944, Polish Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin coined the term "genocide" in a book documenting Nazi policies of systematically destroying national and ethnic groups, including the mass murder of European Jews}}</ref> Ia merupakan antara kejadian pembasmian kaum paing dikenali, selain [[Holokus]]. Pada [[1914]], terdapat 2 juta etnik Armenia dalam Empayar Uthmaniyyah. Etnik Armenia menjadi majoriti di timur [[Anatolia]] terutama di sekitar [[Konstantinople]]. Hampir dua dekad ,mereka dilayan dengan kejam dan dibunuh.
