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This picture shows the death march into the desert. The people have no food or water or any kind of supply.

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Out of the 2 million Armenians there were about 1.5 million were killed.
The Armenians were tortured, massacred,  and starved and most people were sent into the desert without food or water.
https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-armenian-genocide

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These mass persecutions were taken by identifying Armenians. The Turkish government forced Armenians to wear identifying symbols and they used their knowledge of Armenians being non-Muslims in order to find out who they were. Then Armenians were raped and property was destroyed. Muslims even got the opportunity to take over their homes and inhabit them.

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The separation was further established after the battle of Sarikemish in 1914 during World War 1. The Turks were allied with Germany and attempted to capture Baku to hurt Russian forces. However, Russian won and the Turks blamed the local Armenians.
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/timestopics/topics_armeniangenocide.htmlc

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Property of Armenians was confiscated, looting and burning followed. Able men where forced into labor. Hundreds of Armenian leaders, intellectuals and representatives of national elite were targeted and arrested. 60,000 Men where drafted and then  disarmed and killed by fellow Turkish soldiers. Death marches (mass deportation/exile to the Syrian dessert) became forced.
http://armeniangenocide100.org/en/the-armenian-genocide/

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The Ottoman Turks treating the Armenians as second class people. The Armenians' could not carry weapons and ride horses. Their houses could not overlook the Turks. All of their stuff needed to be "less" than the stuff the Ottoman Turks had. And testimony from Armenians was not admissible in courts of law. https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2015/armenian-genocide-history

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After Armenian protests and complaints were spread through the empire, the Turkish government organized groups such as a killing squad called the, "Butcher Battalions" in 1915 to eliminate those outcries. These people were usually comprised of dangerous criminals and ex-convicts who used methods of torture to cause pain and suffering for the Armenians. The government also organized it's military for its efforts.

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Extermination is the mass killing of victims or getting rid of a group of people. During the Armenian/ Turkey genocide there was deportation, shootings, exile to Syrian desert, gas and suffocation massacres, and burning commence to eliminate Armenians. In 1845 between 100,000 and 300,000 Armenians were massacred and then in 1905 another 15,000 to 30,000 people were killed each day. On April 24, 1915 the Ottoman government imprisoned about 250 Armenians and leader which marked the beginning of the genocide. Armenians were marched into Syrian deserts. It was called the death march because the Ottoman government didn't provide the extensive  facilities  or supplies that was needed to help hundreds of thousands of people to survive. Most people didn't surprise and those who survived the march were doomed, the government had a plan to exterminate all Armenian people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide

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The Armenians were dehumanized when they weren't perceived as human beings by the eyes of lawmakers themselves. Many Turkish people saw it being right in the massacres of the Armenians because they believed that they weren't "humane". Armenians were also considered threats to the state an idea informed by propaganda.

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The Armenians were classified as gavours, infidels, unbelievers and 2nd class citizens for their belief in Christianity. Furthermore, Turks blamed Armenians for siding with the Russians in World War 1 and Young Turks used propaganda to make Armenians appear as fifth columns or traitors.  Non-Muslims in that area during that time period weren't regarded as equally as Muslims.

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The Armenians were classified into two groups. The "us" were the Ottoman Turks (Muslims) and the "them" were the Armenians (Non-Muslims, Christians).

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Even today it is a crime to talk about what happened to the Armenians in Turkey and is called "Insulting Turkishness". The Turks consider the events of 1915 to be just a part of war and the messy end of an empire . The say there was no organized or systematic attempt to end the Armenians. http://www.nytimes.com/ref/timestopics/topics_armeniangenocide.html

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This map shows the deportation routes. The red dots show the deportation centers and the red arrows show the major deportation routes.