In the old city of Jerusalem is an Armenian community.  There is an Armenian Museum describing the early history of Armenia under the Uratians and subsequent history including the establishment of Christianity in Armenia and the plight of Armenians who lived in Turkey during WWI.

The details of the massacre and photographical evidence of mass grave sites are on display at the Armenian Museum in Jerusalem.   

On April 24, 1915 leading Armenians in Constantinople were arrested and murdered.  From 1915-1916 approximately 1,500,000 Armenians were put to death, some immediately and others after deportation to concentration camps in the Syrian desert where they were denied food and housing.  The massacres resumed in 1918 in the territories taken from Russia.  There were many reports in western newspapers, US government reports, and from foreigners doing business in the Turkish empire confirming the details of the genocide. 

Armenia had converted to Christianity in 301 C.E.   During the Ottoman Empire the Moslems took over much of the Armenian territory.  Christians had lived at peace with their Muslim neighbors for many years.  During WWI the Turks were filled with hatred against the Armenians based on the murderous errors contained in the Koran.

Ironically the atheist Soviets provided a republic of refuge for some of the Armenians not within reach of the Islamic Turks.   This was the Soviet Socialist Republic of Armenia. 

"The main part of Armenian territory remained in Turkish hands as a result of the Peace Treaty of Lausanne on July 24, 1923."  (Armenian Museum, Jerusalem)

Currently there is a small Christian minority living in Turkey. 

Turkish soldiers hanging Armenians.  Pictures of mass graves were also on display at the museum.

Christians were taught that murder was wrong.  Additionally being angry was cause for judgment against the angry person.  Anger was to wish harm to a person; or to contemplate violence, rage, belligerence, false accusation, etc.

Jews had commandments to love their neighbors and not to murder.

Buddha taught against murder, striking people, and taking the lives of animals.

Moslems had a passage advising them to be at peace with those who are at peace with them and some commandments against taking the lives of people, except in cases of people attacking, corrupting, or oppressing them.  Moslem standards of interpreting corruption may be different from those of other peoples.

A charity supporting Christian minorities in Islamic lands: http://www.barnabasfund.org/

A group giving aid to Christian communities suffering the effects of current, persecutions, religious intolerance, war, and enforced atheism has a web site: http://persecution.com/

Another charity offering support to persecuted Christians:
http://www.christianfreedom.org/

Sources for this site included reports prepared from records handed down by those who were in Turkey during the times of the genocides.  There were European and American government officials, journalists, and missionaries.  Germany was an ally of the Turkish government during these times and received reports of the atrocities.  There were a few German efforts to criticize the Turkish government, yet these did not succeed in stopping the killing as the Germans did not want to lose the friendship of the Turks and did not break off relations over the mass murders, nor did the Turks heed the German warnings.  Moslem intolerance of non-Moslems has remained a problem to this day.  Some scholars investigating the Koran have found contradictions in it, contradictions cannot be supported by scientific reasoning.

On January 19th 2007, Armenian activist Hrant Dink was shot to death in Turkey.  He had previously stood trial for describing the WWI era Turkish government as sanctioning genocide.  The Turks considered statements linking Turkey to the Armenian genocide as treason.  Thousands of people marched to protest the death of Hrant Dink. 

Additional reading, Why I am not a Muslim, by Ibn Warraq