“The Young Turks and the Armenians made the revolution together. The leaders were friends and supported one another’s election. During the first months of the war, relations between them seemed amicable. Suddenly on the evenings of April 24 and 25, 1915, to the complete surprise of everyone in Constantinople, 235 Armenian intellectuals [meilleure société] were arrested, jailed, and then sent to Asia Minor.… Practically all of the Armenian intellectual leaders in Constantinople were wiped out in this manner.”
