Samsun , then home to an Armenian community numbering over 5,000 , was heavily affected during the Armenian Genocide of 1915 . According to local eyewitnesses , such as Hafiz Mehmet , many of the Samsun Armenians were drowned in the Black Sea . Others were deported from Samsun and ultimately massacred in provinces further south . After the Armenian Genocide , there remained eleven islamicized Armenians and two Armenian physicians . Armenian orphans who had survived were given to Turkish families
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Samsun