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government's responsibility. This proved an insurmountable humanitarian issue. Typhus was a major sickness, because of its effect on children. Conditions in the outlying regions, not necessarily consisting of refugees, weren't any better. The Ottoman governing structure and Russian army had already
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and another 200,000 lived in the Turkish provinces, largely women and children who had been forcibly converted. Though Armenians in Constantinople faced discrimination, they were allowed to maintain their cultural identity, unlike those elsewhere in Turkey who continued to face forced Islamization
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was faced with a most sobering reality in the winter of 1918-19. The newly formed government was responsible for over half a million Armenian refugees in the Caucasus. It was a long and harsh winter. The homeless masses, lacking food, clothing and medicine, had to endure the elements. Many who
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shipment of wheat reached Batum. The British army transported the aid to Yerevan. Yet by that time some 150,000 of the refugees had perished. Vratsian puts this figure at around 180,000, or nearly 20% of the entire nascent Republic. A report in early 1919 noted that 65% of the population of
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saw the return of Armenian survivors as a mortal threat to its nationalist ambitions and the interests of its supporters. The return of survivors was therefore impossible in most of Anatolia and thousands of Armenians who tried were murdered. Nearly 100,000 Armenians were massacred in
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There was also an Armenian settlement problem that brought conflict with other ethnic residents. In all, there were over 300,000 embittered and impatient Armenian refugees escaping from the Ottoman Empire which were now the
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withdrawn from the region. The Armenian government had neither time nor resources to rebuild the infrastructure. The 393,700 refugees were under their jurisdiction as follows:
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survived the exposure and famine succumbed to the ravaging diseases. By the spring of 1919, the typhus epidemic had run its course, the weather improved and the first
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and kidnapping of girls after 1923. Between 1922 and 1929, the Turkish authorities eliminated surviving Armenians from southern Turkey, expelling thousands to
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According to the same source, there were 281,000 Armenians still living in Turkey in 1921: 150,000 in Istanbul and 131,000 in Asia Minor.
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Sardarabad, 40% of the population of eight villages near Etchmiadzin and 25% of the population of Ashtarak had died.
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Settlement and routes for Armenian refugees during and after the Armenian Genocide, up to the Hatay Referendum.
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Collective and State Violence in Turkey: The Construction of a National Identity from Empire to Nation-State
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The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire
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Kévorkian, Raymond (2020). "The Final Phase: The Cleansing of Armenian and Greek Survivors, 1919–1922".
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Greek and Armenian refugee children near Athens, Greece, in 1923, following their expulsion from Turkey
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Armenian refugees from Turkey carding wool in Tiflis, Georgia. Photograph by Melville Chater from the
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Turkey, nor Armenian women and children - approximately 95,000, according to the
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The Armenians in Modern Turkey: Post-Genocide Society, Politics and History
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Comprendre le génocide des arméniens – 1915 à nos jours
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The US State Department document of the Armenian population in 1921
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Understanding the Armenian genocide: 1915 to the present day
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The Republic of Armenia: The First Year, 1918-1919, Vol. I
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Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks and a Century of Genocide
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Deportation of Armenian intellectuals on 24 April 1915
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Armenians in the Ottoman Empire
genocide of 1915
Turkish nationalist movement
Transcaucasia
Turkish invasion of Armenia
Cilicia
French withdrawal
Soviet Armenia
Armenian diaspora
100,000 Armenians lived in Constantinople
French-mandate Syria

US State Department
Constantinople
Near East Relief Society
Kemalist
League of Nations
First Republic of Armenia § Refugee Crisis
DRA
Yerevan
Ejmiatsin
Novo-Bayazit
Daralagyaz
Bash-Abaran
Ashtarak
Bash-Garni
Karakilisa
Dilijan

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