The Anatolian peninsula (Modern day Turkey) has long been the ancestral home of the Armenian people. In 1914 the Armenian population there was roughly 2 million. By 1917 it had dropped to less than 300,000. According to the Ottoman reports of the time and official Turkish numbers, “only” about 800,000 of the Armenian population was killed. But, these numbers these numbers only account for the Armenians who “perished” on the deportation marches, or were killed defending themselves and their famil