24 abr 1915 ano - April 1915 - The days that followed the uprising, a
sizable portion of the Armenian elites (23,405
people out of a community of 150,000) was
swept up, tortured, deported to Angora, and
killed. Minister of the Interior Talat Pasha
justified these arrests with reference to the
uprising at Van and the intervention of Russian
troops that evacuated 210,000 people
threatened with annihilation.