During the period between 1915 and 1922 approximately 1.500.000 Armenians were killed. and more than 500.000 were exiled from the Empire. On April 24. 1915. hundreds of religious. political. and Intellectual leaders of the Armenian community were rounded up and eventually murdered In remote regions of Anatolia. The remaining Armenian population was then deported from their towns and forced to go on death marches. Most of the men and older boys were quickly executed. Those women who didnt die from forced starvation. disease. or outright murder were subjected to rape or forced Into harems. In 1918. Henry Morgenthau. the United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. said that the forced deportations were a "death warrant to the whole race." and that the Turkish authorities "made no particular attempt to conceal the fact" of this massacre. Before World War I. there were 2.500.000 Armenians living In the Ottoman Empire. Because of this tragedy. there are fewer than 100.000 declared Armenians living In Turkey today. mostly In eastern Turkey far from their homeland In the western part of the nation.
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