ABSTRACT

The claim of the genocide of Armenians has been taking up the time of public opinion for many years. The public speech of the president of the USA, Barak Obama on 24 th April, 2009 made this issue a matter of front rank importance again. The fact that the Ottomans drove the Armenians in the region of war to out of the area during World War I because of their cooperation with the imperialist powers is wanted to be accepted as genocide by public opinion all over the world. It is clera that the claims by Armenians as “1.5 million Armenians were killed” don’t reflect the reality and even the whole population of the Armenian citizens of Ottomans never reached this number in history. In this article, the Armenian population on the Otoman land, the reasons for driving and settling them out and the application of this decision will be examined.