 By the early 1930s , all properties belonging to Armenians who were subject to deportation had been confiscated . Since then , no restitution of property confiscated during the Armenian Genocide has taken place . The laws concerning abandoned property remained in effect for 73 years until it was finally abolished on 11 June 1986 . The mass confiscation of properties provided the opportunity for ordinary lower class Turks ( i.e. peasantry , soldiers , and laborers ) to rise to the ranks of the middle class . Contemporary Turkish historian Uğur Ümit Üngör asserts that " the elimination of the Armenian population left the state an infrastructure of Armenian property , which was used for the progress of Turkish ( settler ) communities . In other words : the construction of an étatist Turkish " national economy " was unthinkable without the destruction and expropriation of Armenians . " 
