c. eliminate the Armenian culture
- The Ottoman Empire's leaders set in motion a plan to expel and massacre Armenians during World War I. The Armenian genocide was the systematic killing and deportation of Armenians by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire. The plan was implemented primarily through the mass murder of around one million Armenians during death marches to the Syrian Desert and the forced Islamization of Armenian women and children¹²³.
To answer your question, it is suggested that the Ottomans attempted to eliminate the Armenian culture which caused many historians to consider the Armenian Massacre to be genocide¹.