On this day 70 years ago. Turkish leaders set in motion a plan to systmatically eliminate their Armenian subjects from existence. thereby setting the socalled Armenian Question once and for all. By 1923. approximately three quarters of the Armenian population living in Armenia and Turkey. over 1.5 million people. perished either through outright killing or through a brutally executed deportation program. To this day. successive Turkish governments have denied that these horrible events took place. The number of Armenians killed. they claim. was less than 30.000 an-! their death was due to their disloyalty in siding with Russia at a time when Turkey was fighting a war on several fronts.
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Accusation of disloyalty for siding with Russia.