The relocation of 1915-16 is also misrepresented if described as the only reason for the losses of the Ottoman Armenian community between 19. Such accusations are based on manipulation of evidence and neglect Ottoman as well as American and German sources. In particular, it is false to assert that the Ottoman government did not provide food and opposed the foreign relief. Then, the policy of the Ottoman government vis-à-vis the Armenian exiles was a protective ones, even if this protection failed in a considerable number of cases. First of all, contrary to what the main Armenian and pro-Armenian affirm, there were hundreds of thousands, likely 500,000 Armenians, who were exempted of relocation, particularly in Istanbul, Western and Central Anatolia as well as in the Arab provinces. This paper studies three aspects of the Turkish-Armenian conflict.
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