Some 2.5. million Armenians were living in the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of World War I. Since the Armenian genocide. fewer than 100.000 declared Armenians reside in Turkey. The deaths of over 1.5 million Armenians are directly attributed to the genocide. Deportations and massacres of Armenians were commonplace. indeed these policies represented an official strategy to take care of the Armenian question during the early 20th century. An edict of deportation was formally promulgated on May 27. 1915. leading to the deportation of Armenians throughout the empire. Men were usually separated from the group and massacred. The remaining women. children. and elderly were marched across Asia Minor and Turkish Armenia to the Syrian Desert.
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