Original sentence: In 1915, Talat Pasha (Minister of the Interior), under Mehmed V, ordered the forced evacuation of the 2 million Armenians living in the Eastern Ottoman Empire.Over the next 8 years, around 1,500,000 Armenians died, though there is no clear consensus on the exact number.See Armenian Genocide.The Turkish government claims that the deaths of the Armenians were the result of lack of food and medicine, and civil war between Turks and Armenians, not because of a planned campaign of extermination