Armenia: "Ethnic cleansing" in World War One
In May 1915 the systematic deportation and murder of Armenians began, coordinated by the CUP’s Talaat Bey in the Ministry of the Interior, and Enver Pasha in the Ministry of War. Their policy was summed up in a note sent by Talaat, “the Government [has] decided to destroy completely all the Armenians living in Turkey…"