The King Crane Commission estimated a million for wartime losses , but also stated that the Hamidian massacres had been included . Whether or not the Armenian casualties were being deliberately understated to increase the Armenian population to support Armenian independence is still a matter of debate . The Armenian wartime losses of a million , the Adana massacres , and Hamidian massacres had been combined for the sake of what the commission at one point called " justice , " in what appears to have been an attempt to maximize the population count . The Armenian estimates showed the same tendency . At times , they were even reduced to 500,000 when the high Armenian death count endangered the possibility of an Armenian state including Ottoman territory , and in other instances raised to over a million . The United States figures for the period between 1915 and 1917 vary widely , but most figures approach a million or more
Hamidian massacres
Hamidian massacres
Ottoman Armenian casualties