Starting rebellion action in 38 different regions, some of Armenians joined to invader Russian troops and rest of them organized gangs and resistance movements to fight against Turkish forces.
Armenians started rebellions in 38 different regions. While 15 thousand Armenian joined to Russian army, 40 thousand of them organized as resistance movements and gangs to stab Turkish army from its back. Van was occupied by Armenians. Armenians of Kilikya applied to French and Russians and told that 40 thousand voluntary Armenian was ready to fight against Ottomans. Armenians atrocity and massacres against Turks after the Russian invasion in the east, changed Ottomans attitude against Armenians. After these events, extraction of Armenians from the war area was a must.
The massacre that Armenians committed in Van in 15 April 1915 was the final straw for Ottoman Empire. Government arrested many Armenian ringleader in 24 April 1915, and decided to deportation of Armenians in 27 May 1915. Law of deportation was especially for Armenians who settle in eastern regions to deport them Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. Deportation did not stop Armenian massacres in Anatolia but even made it increase.
Especially resistance movements who provoked young Armenians against Muslims, increased their activities after the decision of deportation. Professor Doctor Yusuf Halacoglu says that Armenian citizens of Ottoman Empire cooperated with imperialist counties who were aiming to terminate Ottoman Empire. Halacoglu says that in the years of World War One, in which millions of innocent civilian lost their lives and more of them suffered, Ottomans who were enclosed with the enemy by any direction, was struggling with the domestic threats meantime. Reminding the cooperation of Armenians with invader countries in the years of war, Halacoglu said that the deportation of Armenians was for extraction of Armenians to out of conflict Area.
Underscoring that the allegations which are mostly depending on political reasons should be evaluated in the methodolgy of History science, Halacoglu says,
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