While the Ottoman official statistics covered 1917 – 18 , and some of German figures , most other figures excluded them . Another problem remains , as to the availability of the sources for what followed 1917 . More recent scholars have called this period the second phase of the Armenian Genocide . Melson , for instance , provide ' a rough estimate of 500,000 . On the other hand , those estimates have no archival grounds , for this reason some researchers considers any such figures could be near to the actual casualty figures or far from it
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Ottoman Armenian casualties