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( The Göktürk Empire in 600 )  The name Turk (Chinese: 突厥, pinyin: tū jué; Jyutping: duk kyu) was first applied to a clan of tribal chieftains (known as Ashina ) who overthrew the ruling Rouran confederacy and founded the nomadic Göktürk Empire ("Celestial Turks").  These nomads roamed in the Altai Mountains (and thus are known as Altaic peoples) in northern Mongolia and on the steppes of Central Asia. The Göktürks were ruled by Khans, whose influences extended during the sixth to eighth centuries from the Aral Sea to the Hindu Kush in the land bridge known as Transoxania. In the eighth century, some Turkic tribes, among them the Oghuz, moved south of the Oxus River, while others migrated west to the northern shore of the Black Sea.   Türk spread as a political designation during the period of Göktürk imperial hegemony to their subject Turkic and non-Turkic peoples. Subsequently, it was adopted as a generic ethnonym designating most, if not all, of the Turkic-speaki...

I n April 1915, hundreds of Armenian leaders of Constantinople Meh were arrested and deported. In May 1915, med Talat P asha Minister of the interior requested that the relocation and settlement of Armenians be legalized, giving the Ottoman government military authori zation to deport anyone it "sensed" was a threat to national security. W hat followed has been documented mainly by American diplomats like  Ambassador Henry Morgenthau Sr.( 1913 – 1916) and German like Major General Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressentein, who noted that " The Turkish policy of causing starvation is an all too obvious proof… for the Turkish resolve to destroy the Armenians ." Swedish ambassador and military attache On July 7, 1915, dispatched a two-page report to Stockholm, beginning with the following information: "The persecutions of the Armenians have reached hair-raising proportions, and all points to the fact that the Young Turks want to seize the opportunity since d...