Turkey who are not prepared to use the word genocide to describe the deaths of more than a million Armenian Christians between 1915 and 1916. One city, Van, largely Armenian in 1914, simply does not exist on the site that it then occupied.16 Britain, Russia and France appealed to the Turks during the war to end these atrocities, threatening post-war retribution to those involved and denouncing these ‘new crimes of Turkey against humanity and civilization’. The word ‘humanity’ had significantly replaced ‘Christianity’ in an earlier draft of the statement, and there was little comfort for
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