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1915
An attack by chetes on the village of Purk near Shabin-Karahisar results in looting, murder, rape. -
1915
The British decide to attack the Dardanelles. -
1915
In April 1915 the Ottoman government embarked upon the systematic decimation of its civilian Armenian population. -
1915
The Armenian population of the Ottoman state was reported at about two million in 1915 -
1915
The people were forcitly removed from Armenia to Syria -
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1916
The governor-general of Aleppo is instructed to send the Armenians deported from the northern provinces directly to their final destinations. -
1916
During this period of 47 days, of 486,000 Armenian deportees, 364,500 are reported to have been killed by the Turks or to have died because of the hardships of the deportations. -
1916
In a period of two and a half days, 1,029 Armenians die of the rigors of the deportations in the town of Bab, northeast of Aleppo. -
1917
Another group of 70 Armenian orphans are sent to an orphanage in Lebanon to be Turkified. -
1917
Turkey breaks relations with the United States. -
1917
President Woodrow Wilson urges former ambassador Henry Morgenthau to write a book based on his experiences. -
1918
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk is signed by Russia, Turkey, and Germany. The hostilities with Russia are officially ended. Talaat declares that he will grant amnesty to the Armenians -
1918
The Armenians are supposedly granted amnesty, and Ismail Janbolat, the Deputy Minister of the Interior, is given charge of the return of the Armenian deportees. -
1919
Dr. Reshid, former governor-general of Diyarbekir Province and a major war criminal, commits suicide. -
1919
180,000 Turkish gold pounds are requisitioned from the Tejeddut Party. -
1919
A mass meeting of 100,000 persons organized by Constantinople Police Department protests the May 14 landing of the Greek Army at Smyrna. -
1920
10,000 Armenians are massacred in Marash. -
1920
The United States of America officially recognizes the Independent Republic of Armenia. -
1923
By 1923 virtually the entire Armenian population of Anatolian Turkey had disappeared. -
1923
Out of the 2.5 million total population , 1.5 million were killed