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A Turkish boycott of Armenian businesses is declared and followed through.
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Turkish police and spies provide the names, biographies, and pictures of two thousand leading Armenians.
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Armenian-owned stores are looted and vandalized. 1,080 shops are burned to the ground.
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The Armenian population is ordered to turn in all weapons including all types of knives.
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Armenian notables are called to a meeting and arrested there.
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Leaders of an Armenian nationalist party organization are arrested.
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Unfounded accusations are launched against the Armenians that they had revolted.
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Armenian churches and school are taken over by the Turks and used as Turkish barracks for their army.
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The Special Organization (mobile killing squads) are formed and given weapons such as rifles.
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Some Armenians are taken and used as porters of Turkish army supplies. (They were forced to hold heavy baggage in the worst winter conditions).
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Turks replace Armenian religious crosses with crescents.
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Turks said that Armenian bakers were poisoning bread and feeding it to the Turkish army. These rumors false but they were cruelly beaten anyway.
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Turkish officials start to attack Armenians on the streets for no reason. Looting, murder, and rape begin in small amounts.
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Armenians are deprived of their uniforms and weapons in the army.
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A dispatch from the Central Committee of Turkey is released announcing the decision to exterminate the Armenians.
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Turkish leaders tell the public how Armenians are the enemy and must be destroyed. Armenians are arrested in all villages.
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The remaining Armenian notables and leaders are arrested and six Armenian soldiers are publicy hung in town.
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Armenians start to fall victims of mass beatings and tortures.
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Deportation of the Armenians begin. They are sent on death marches with the purpose of dieing. Armenians are now being killed everyday in large amounts.
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55,000 Armenians are already dead. The genocide has offically began.
