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Mehmed Talat

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What on earth do you want? The question is settled. There are no more Armenians.
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After the German Ambassador persistently brought up the Armenian question in 1918. Quoted in The History of the Armenian Genocide (2003) by Vahakn N. Dadrian, p. 211

 
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