During the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid I. 189496. 300.000 Armenians were massacred. In 1909. 21.000 Armenians were murdered in Cilicia. And between 1914 and 1923. an estimated 1 million Armenians were killed and another 500.000 forced into exile. In the words of Henry Morganthau. Americas Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire at the time: When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations. they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race: they understood this well. and. In their conversations with me. they made no particular attempt to conceal the fact. The genocide all but ended the 3.000yearold presence of the Armenian population in the Turkish Near East.
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