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Between 800,000 and 1.2 million Armenians were deported, [250] [251] and contemporaries estimated that by late 1916 only 200,000 were still alive. [250] As the British Army advanced in 1917 and 1918 northwards through the Levant , they liberated around 100,000 to 150,000 Armenians working for the Ottoman military under abysmal conditions, not ...
However, recent scholarship give figures of around 800,000 to 1.2 million Armenians that were deported in 1915–1916. It's estimated that only 200,000 of these were ...
By the end of August 1915, about 150 Armenians with Russian citizenship were deported from Constantinople to holding centers. [12] A few of the detained, including writer Alexander Panossian (1859–1919), were released the same weekend before even being transferred to Anatolia. [13]
Estimates of the number of Armenians who perished vary widely, with historians offering a range of about 700,000 to 1.2 million.
Among the deported population (about 350,000 people), the largest number were Armenians. [10] [11] According to various estimates, the number of expelled Armenians ranged from 250,000 [6] [12] to 300,000 people. [4] [13] [14] [14] During this time Armenian cities and villages were plundered and destroyed.
The three attorneys were Armenian Americans, part of a proud and active L.A. ethnic group of more than 200,000, and the genocide cases offered them an attractive combination of community service ...
Around 22,000 Armenians from Zeytun (mostly women and children) were deported west to Konya; as a result, thousands starved or died of disease. On 24 April Talat ordered that they be redirected to Syria as there were deemed to be too many Armenians in Konya. [139]
How many people were deported under Trump and Obama? During Trump’s term in office, approximately 1.2 million people were deported through removal orders. A further 805,770 were self-deported or ...