President. the pain of those memories is compounded by the sad fact that to this day. the Turkish Government denies that the wholesale slaughter of the Armenians ever took place. The facts are undeniable. Before World War I. 2.500.000 Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire most of them in the region that had for many centuries been the Armenian homeland. Today. fewer than 100.000 declared Armenians reside in Turkey. What happened to them? On May 27. 1915. the Ottoman authorities promulgated an edict of deportation against the Armenians. Armenian men were driven from their homes and massacred by the tens of thousands. Women. children. and old people were herded into the deserts of Syria.
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