Claim: The Armenian Genocide occurred during the Second Constitutional Era.
Evidence: The starting date is conventionally held to be 24 April 1915 , the day that Ottoman authorities rounded up , arrested , and deported 235 to 270 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders from Constantinople to the region of Ankara , the majority of whom were eventually murdered.
The Second Constitutional Era -LRB- ايکنجى مشروطيت دورى İkinci Meşrûtiyyet Devri -RRB- of the Ottoman Empire established shortly after the 1908 Young Turk Revolution which forced Sultan Abdul Hamid II to restore the constitutional monarchy by the revival of the Ottoman parliament , the General Assembly of the Ottoman Empire and the restoration of the constitution of 1876.
The last meeting on 18 March 1920 produced a letter of protest to the Allies , and a black cloth covered the pulpit of the Parliament as reminder of its absent members.