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 Telegram by Mehmet Talât, Turkish Minister of the Interior, sent on September 16, 1915. It orders the massacre of the Armenian population.
 
 
 
 
 
 
| 16 September 1915. 
 To the
 Provinvial Governor
 of Aleppo:
 
 
 We inform you that the Government has decided on the complete extermination of the Armenian population living in Turkey.
 
 Anyone with an opposing view is no longer a member of the state administration.
 
 An end must be put to their existence without any mercy for women, children, or invalid persons, regardless of whether this extermination is considered an atrocity.
 
 
 
 Mehmet TalâtMinister of the Interior
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