Armenian genocide survivors

[3] Nearly 100,000 Armenians were massacred in Transcaucasia during the Turkish invasion of Armenia and another 100,000 fled from Cilicia during the French withdrawal.

[8][9] Between 1922 and 1929, the Turkish authorities eliminated surviving Armenians from southern Turkey, expelling thousands to French-mandate Syria.

[11] This figure was based upon information provided by the British Embassy in Constantinople and 1921 data from the Near East Relief Society.

In all, there were over 300,000 embittered and impatient Armenian refugees escaping from the Ottoman Empire which were now the DRA government's responsibility.

The 393,700 refugees were under their jurisdiction as follows:[citation needed] The government of Hovhannes Kachaznuni was faced with a most sobering reality in the winter of 1918-19.

By the spring of 1919, the typhus epidemic had run its course, the weather improved and the first American Committee for Relief in the Near East shipment of wheat reached Batum.