came to believe that the Armenian population represented a mortal threat to the dying Ottoman Empire. Enmeshed in war with Britain and Russia and harassed by small bands of Armenian fedayeen on its eastern front, the Ottoman government decided to solve the “Armenian question” once and for all by eliminating all Armenians residing in Anatolia. This eradication of over a million people would proceed in stages, often disguised as deportations. All would be camouflaged by the fog of war.
