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filled some big risk in Christian population of Ottoman Empire, like Armenians, Pontus Greeks became independent.

And they started to persecute the Christian population of Ottoman Empire.

or to convert them to Islam.

How it went on?

When the war started between Antanta and Ottoman Empire, Germany and Austria-Hungary,

Hungary, the Ottoman army came to all villages of Armenians in Ottoman Empire and asked two questions, just the villagers or the people who lived in towns.

The first question was, will you convert to Islam?

Like 98% of the population, Armenian population of Ottoman Empire denied.

Said no.

Said no.

And the second question is, if you don't convert to Islam, you will go from here to desert of Deir Zor.

It's like 800 kilometers, 600 kilometers from Armenian highlands.

And all the men were killed there.

And all the women were taken with children to the desert of Deir ez-Zor.

And we have lost 70% of the population of our nation because everyone, one and a half million people, said no to converting to another religion.

We want everyone to know about this story, not just about the dark side of the history.

It has a bright message too, that Christians in the 20th century were very...

You know, they went in a way of Christ and they were sacrificed.

And we hope all this sacrificial will bring the Christians of our days to more faith that what we have, the biggest and most humanistic religion that we accept and we must live with it.

There were no any problem with ethnicity.