Poverty and Illness...what about the other Turks in the eastern provinces...if we died of poverty and illness, not only us, the Pontic greeks at Trebizond as well, what about Turks, why didnt they die of poverty and illness ? Were they immortal ? No Turk, they were systemtically planned to deportation and starvation..my great-grandmother who died in 97 was a witness, she was one of the survivors of that long deportation group. They took her out to the Eastern deserts leading to Syria and shot everyone in line, luckily, a bullet grazed through her head and survived. Otherwise, I wouldn't be here and writing this reply to you. They didn't kill Armenians in West provinces because, one, they were given a chance to convert to Islam and if not, they were killed, and two, they were extremely rich or had friends in high places and three, they had Ottoman nationality. Obviously not every Turk at that time was evil nor are they now. For god's sake, there are witnesses, some still alive today, quotes, trial accounts, red-cross workers, Turkish historians, the list goes on...