“I have accomplished more toward solving the Armenian problem in three months than Abdul Hamid accomplished in thirty years!”

—  Mehmed Talat

Quoted in "The Burning Tigris: the Armenian Genocide and America's response" - Page 157 - by Peter Balakian - History - 2003

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