france signed Sign_agreement the unk agreement and promised Commitment the realization of an armenian state in the mediterranean region in exchange Exchange to the french armenian legion .

france signed Sign_agreement the unk agreement and promised Commitment the realization of an armenian state in the mediterranean region in exchange Exchange to the french armenian legion .

since the assyrian genocide Killing took place Process_start within the context of the much more widespread armenian genocide , scholarship treating it as a separate event is scarce , with the exceptions of the works of joseph yacoub , gabriele yonan , david gaunt and hannibal travis , who have classified Check the genocide Killing as a systematic campaign Military_operation by the young turk government .

the occupation of the ottoman bank ( , `` raid Attack on the ottoman bank '' ; , `` bank unk unk '' `` ottoman bank takeover '' ) by members of the armenian revolutionary federation ( dashnak party ) took place Process_start in istanbul , the capital of the ottoman empire , on 26 august 1896 .

armed with pistols , grenades , dynamite and hand-held bombs Attack , the seizure of the bank lasted Process_end for 14 hours , resulting in Causation the deaths Death of ten of the armenian men and ottoman soldiers .