uropean powers lack of agreement on how to split it up into different nations. Some Armenians began to call for independence like the Greeks, while some Turks began to see a new Pan-Turkish empire spreading all the way to Central Asia. Armenians were the only ethnic group living in Turkey.4
             In the 1890's hundreds of thousands of Armenians died in pogroms ordered by Sultan Abdul Hamid II in order to rid Turkey of these ethnic people. In 1908 extreme Turkish nationalists took complete dictatorial control of Turkey. This was just a step closer towards completing the Turkish dream of an Armerian-free Turkey.
             World War One gave the Turk government the cover and the excuse to carry out their plan.. On April 24th 1915, hundreds of Armenian leaders were murdered in Istanbul after being summoned and gathered there. The attack on ordinary Armenian citizens was to follow and mass murder of innocent Armenian men, women, and children took place from village to village.5
             After this episode of extermination the Armenian people hoped that the nightmare of terror was over, but in reality it had only just began. The Turkish people wanted to create a new kind of Turkic state, eliminating those people who were different from the "ideal" type of Turkish citizens. The government planed to "relocate" the Armenians, "for their own good". First the Armenians were asked to turn in their hunting weapons, for the war effort. The government later claimed that these weapons were proof that the Armenians were planning to rebel. Young and healthy Armenian men were then "drafted" into the army as a second part of the government's plan. They were immediately killed or worked to death in labour camps. Part three of the plan involved gathering the remaining Armenian residents including doctors, lawyers, politicians and authors, relocating them in a remote desert. Unable to fight back, or protest the Armenians, were gathered up, and escorted by T...