The Armenian Genocide was the Ottoman government 's systematic extermination of its minority Armenian subjects inside their historic homeland , which lies within the territory constituting the present-day Republic of Turkey . Mustafa Arif served as Interior Minister in 1918 , succeeding Talat Pasha after the latter stepped down . Arif established a governmental commission that examined the period of the massacres . On March 18 , 1919 , the commission concluded that 800,000 Armenians had perished during these events . The figure became reputable after other Turkish historians such as Yusuf Hikmet Bayur used the figure in their research and writing
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Mustafa Arif Deymer