During centuries of their subjection to Turkish rule in their homeland they suffered much and sometimes put up with inhuman treatment. including wholesale massacres. But the tragedy that was ushered in by the wholesale and unexplained arrests by Turkish authorities of some 1.000 prominent Armenians on April 24. 49 years ago. was the most appalling. On that day the cream of the Armenian community. clergymen. men of letters. teachers. merchants. and prominent men in all walks of life. were rounded up by the Turkish police. imprisoned and held incommunicado. then bundled off in small groups and under heavy guard deported to distant parts of the Ottoman Empire to be put to death there. Sad and stunning was this shocking event. even more tragic was what followed it. Gradually a largescale tragedy began to unfold itself which involved the fate of the entire Armenian community in Turkey.
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