Timeline: 1918

January 9 The police in Aleppo receives a list of Armenians in labor battalions, working on the construction of a school in Aleppo, in order to select which ones should be killed.


March 12 Enver orders the killing of all the Armenian civilian population older than five years and the remaining Armenian soldiers in the Army within 48 hours. Germans attempt to stop the order.


April 15 The Turkish government announces that it enacts amnesty for the remaining Armenians in Turkey. However, this is an empty gesture since there are hardly any Armenians left in Turkey.


June 24 2,000 remaining Armenians in the Kara Kilisa are massacred.


September 15 to 17 During a three-day massacre, the Turkish Army succeeds kill 30,000 Armenians in the city of Baku.


October 8 Ittihadist government resigns and Enver, Jemal and Talaat prepare to flee the country.


October 26 Allied forces occupy the city of Aleppo and 125,000 survivors of the Armenian deportations are rescued from the desert.


October 29 Enver, Jemal, and Talaat and more than 30 other Ittihadist leaders decide to flee to Germany.


October 29 Dr. Nazim flees to Germany and has about 65,000 Turkish gold pounds, jewelry and gems worth 600,000 Turkish gold pounds which come from so-called abandoned Armenian properties.


October 30 The ceasefire in Mudros is signed between Turkey and the Allies.


2 november Enver, Jemal and Talaat flee the country aboard a German freighter.


December 11 Enver, Jemal and Talaat are ordered to, within ten days, appear in front of the Turkish Parliament.