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An attack by chetes on the village of Purk near Shabin-Karahisar results in looting, murder, rape.
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The British decide to attack the Dardanelles.
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In April 1915 the Ottoman government embarked upon the systematic decimation of its civilian Armenian population.
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The Armenian population of the Ottoman state was reported at about two million in 1915
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The people were forcitly removed from Armenia to Syria
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The governor-general of Aleppo is instructed to send the Armenians deported from the northern provinces directly to their final destinations.
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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.
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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.
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Another group of 70 Armenian orphans are sent to an orphanage in Lebanon to be Turkified.
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Turkey breaks relations with the United States.
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President Woodrow Wilson urges former ambassador Henry Morgenthau to write a book based on his experiences.
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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
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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.
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Dr. Reshid, former governor-general of Diyarbekir Province and a major war criminal, commits suicide.
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180,000 Turkish gold pounds are requisitioned from the Tejeddut Party.
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A mass meeting of 100,000 persons organized by Constantinople Police Department protests the May 14 landing of the Greek Army at Smyrna.
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10,000 Armenians are massacred in Marash.
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The United States of America officially recognizes the Independent Republic of Armenia.
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By 1923 virtually the entire Armenian population of Anatolian Turkey had disappeared.
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Out of the 2.5 million total population , 1.5 million were killed