"Armenian Genocide of 1915: An Overview By JOHN KIFNER

"Armenian Genocide of 1915: An Overview

By JOHN KIFNER

On the eve of World War I, there were 

two million Armenians in the declining 

Ottoman Empire. By 1922, there were 

fewer than 400,000. The others — 

some 1.5 million — were killed in what 

historians consider a genocide..."

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/timestopics/topics_armeniangenocide.html