books.google.com - In 1915, the Ottoman government, then run by the Young Turks, deported most of its Armenian citizens from their eastern Anatolian lands. According to reliable estimates, close to forty percent of the prewar population perished, many in brutal massacres. Armenians call it the first genocide of the twentieth...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Armenian_Massacres_in_Ottoman_Turkey.html?id=w0Dm4Nl5k08C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey