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    Turkish General Staff says Ottomans "relocated" 413,000 Armenians

    Anatolia news agency
    1 May 05

    ANKARA

    Documents issued by General Staff refute the allegations of the
    Armenian Diaspora that around 1.5m Armenians were killed during the
    period of the Ottoman Empire.

    The documents prove that 413,000 of the around 987,000 Armenians
    living on the territories of the Ottoman Empire were deported to Syria
    and vicinity.

    Turkish Institute of History (TTK) Armenian Studies Chairman Prof Dr
    Hikmet Ozdemir, referring to arguments over Armenian population,
    said:"The notebook which was claimed to have belonged to Talat Pasha
    could be belonging to a civil servant assigned in Refugees Commission.

    Ozdemir said the notebook definitely did not belong to Talat Pasha,
    stating that this notebook said 34, 451 Armenians were relocated from
    Aleppo, but that no Armenians were deported from this city." On the
    contrary," he noted, Aleppo was the region where Armenians were sent.

    Ozdemir said documents of the Turkish General Staff put in a chart the
    provinces where Armenians were registered.

    The General Staff document said total population of the Armenians were
    987,569 and that number of Armenians who were relocated was
    413,067. [Passage omitted]
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