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ELI5: Why was there so much hatred towards Armenians in the late 1800's/early 1900's? They were victims in two notable massacres/genocides resulting in the deaths of roughly 1.8 million Armenians.
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Sort of like the Jews, they were the trader and merchant class in the Ottoman empire. So they were everywhere in small numbers, dealt in money, and were involved in a lot of other transactions. Poor peasants resent the more urban merchants (a classic trope), plus they were Christians in a Muslim empire. Armenia also used to be its own country, so as nationalism rose in the late 1800s, there were Armenians talking about getting their own country back. 

When the strain of WW1 was destroying the Ottoman Empire, they were an easy scapegoat. In smaller towns, they could be attacked in order to take their money.  And on the larger level, the Turks could blame the Armenians as the 'enemy within' (and also push them out of their homes and take their money)