Алексей Тишков

“The interior minister explained to the American ambassador that August why he was taking such drastic measures with the Armenians: “In the first place, they have enriched themselves at the expense of the Turks. In the second place, they are determined to domineer over us and establish a separate state,” Talaat Pasha said. “In the third place, they have openly encouraged our enemies.”
― Dawn Anahid MacKeen, The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey – A True Story of a Genocide Survivor's Escape and a Family's Resilience