Approximately 2.500.000 Armenian citizens resided throughout the Ottoman Empire when World War I began. From 1915 to 1923. 1.500.000 Armenians were brutally slain while 500.000 others attempted to escape from their ancestral homeland of 3.000 years. The Edict of Deportation. which was formally promulgated by the Turkish Government on May 27. 1915. is but one piece of evidence substantiating the systematic deportation and extermination of almost an entire people. In fear of their lives. the Armenians were forced to flee and scatter north across the Turkish border to Russia. south into the Arab countries. and to Europe and the United States. Many died of starvation. disease. and exposure or were murdered while attempting to leave the Ottoman Empire.
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