Historian Hans-Lukas Kieser states that, from the statements of Talaat Pasha it is clear that the officials were aware that the deportation order was genocidal.
歷史學家Hans-Lukas Kieser指出根據塔拉特帕夏的聲明，清楚顯示土耳其官員意識到驅逐命令是種族滅絕。