Exactly a century ago, a dark episode began in the crumbling Ottoman Empire. Around 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders were arrested in Istanbul and deported to Anatolia, never to return. The real catastrophe began a month later. The Union and Progress government, the Young Turk Party that took over the empire with a military coup in 1913, passed an Expulsion Law, giving itself the authority to deport anyone deemed a threat to national security.
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