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1.5 million Armenians were deported before 1917, which marked the end of the genocide, while over 600,000 Armenians were brutally killed. The genocide finally ended when the Young Turks Party lost interest in the Armenians and gained interest in World War I. Since they had no homes to return to, the Armenians were forced to spread out world wide. This world wide spread made other countries interested in the Armenian plight. A handful of countries immediately recognized this event as a genocide, but most nations took a much longer time to admit to the recognition. There are still some nations that haven't recognized the event as a genocide, one being the United States (though 43 states have recognized it). The Armenians today still fight for each nation to help the entire world recognize the genocide. The main goal that the Armenians believe is that if the Turks cave in to admitting that this occurance was a genocide, than the rest of the world would as well, or vice versa. As of now, there are many organizations that urge the fact that this was a genocide.
This is a report written by Lieutenant Sayied Ahmed Moukhtar Baas, a Turkish officer during the time of the Armenian Genocide. As one of the agressors of the genocide, he seemed to have had negative thoughts on the whole idea of it. In the document written in April 1915, he speaks about the different treatments the Armenians that were given by the Turks, such as different deportations, murders, forced starvation, and even rape. Assumptions have been made that this Lieutenant actually believed that what happened was a genocide.