 The sum of 5 @,@ 000 @,@ 000 Turkish gold pounds ( representing about 30 @.@ 000 kilograms of gold ) deposited by the Turkish government at the Reichsbank in Berlin in 1916 , and taken over by the Allies after the Armistice , was in large part ( perhaps wholly ) Armenian money . After the forced deportation of the Armenians in 1915 , their current and deposit accounts were transferred , by government order , to the State Treasury in Constantinople . 
