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signed by the ambassadors of Russia, France and Great Britain, it was pointed out that theSublime Porte was trying to manipulate the numbers in order to decrease the signification of thecommitments mentioned in the Berlin Treaty. 143However, these administrative measures did not seem to achieve the desirable results, at leastnot as quickly as necessary. The Government now took more drastic measures and started alarge-scale massacre of Armenians. Already in 1894-86 European and American newspapers andgovernments had called attention to the atrocities committed against the Armenians in OttomanTurkey. About 110,000 Armenians were killed and another 40,000 were forced to convert toIslam and over 100,000 Armenians fled to Transcaucasus, Europe and the USA. 2,500communities were totally emptied of their Armenian elements, their property confiscated byTurks and Kurds, putting over 500,000 Armenians in total poverty. 144 The massacres weremeasures to decimate the Armenian population, thereby diminishing the need for reforms due tothe existence of an Armenian majority in the six Armenian provinces: Sivas, Erzurum, Kharpout,Diyarbakir, Bitlis, and Van 145 The protests and threats of intervention were not realised untilFigure 1. The Armenian vilayets of the Turkish Empire. Source: Armenica.org.143 Pasdermadjian, 1949, p. 399.144 Pasdermadjian, 1949, p. 412. Also see Gerner and Karlsson, 2005, p. 120.145 Pasdermadjian, 1949, p. 408.34