Special Report, November 2026 By Taiga Sarli MERIP. The Armenian Genocide in Kurdish Collective Memory. Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) The Armenian Genocide was the persecution and partial destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. From 1915 to 1916, Armenians, a mostly Christian ethnic group, were discriminated against, persecuted, and oppressed before the genocide began. During the ru…