<P> (Lloyd George) was also very contemptuous of President Wilson and anxious to arrange the division of Empire between France, Italy, and G.B. before speaking to America . He also thought it would attract less attention to our enormous gains during the war if we swallowed our share of Empire now, and the German colonies later . </P> <P> The Ottomans, for their part, believed the war to be lost and would have accepted almost any demands placed on them . As a result, the initial draft prepared by the British was accepted largely unchanged; the Ottomans did not know they could have pushed back on most of the clauses, and the British did not know they could have demanded even more . The Ottomans ceded the rights to the Allies to occupy "in case of disorder" any Ottoman territory, a vague and broad clause . The French were displeased with the precedent; French Premier Clemenceau disliked the British making unilateral decisions in so important a matter . Lloyd George countered that the French had concluded a similar armistice on short notice in the Armistice of Salonica which had been negotiated by French General d'Esperey, and that Great Britain (and Czarist Russia) had committed the vast majority of troops to the campaign against the Ottomans . The French agreed to accept the matter as closed . </P> <P> On 30 October 1918, the Armistice of Mudros was signed, ending Ottoman involvement in World War 1 . The Ottoman public, however, was given misleadingly positive impressions of the severity of the terms of the Armistice . They thought its terms were considerably more lenient than they actually were, a source of discontent later that the Allies had betrayed the offered terms . </P> <P> During WWI the Ottoman Empire engaged in a genocide against local ethnicities in its territory . The Armenian Genocide, also known as the Armenian Holocaust, was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of 1.5 million Christian Armenians, mostly Ottoman citizens within the Ottoman Empire and its successor state, the Republic of Turkey . The starting date is conventionally held to be 24 April 1915, the day that Ottoman authorities rounded up, arrested, and deported 235 to 270 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders from Constantinople to Ankara, the majority of whom were eventually murdered . The genocide was carried out during and after World War I and implemented in two phases: the wholesale killing of the able - bodied male population through massacre and subjection of army conscripts to forced labour, followed by the deportation of women, children, the elderly, and the infirm on death marches leading to the Syrian desert . Driven forward by military escorts, the deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to periodic robbery, rape, and massacre . Other indigenous and Christian ethnic groups such as the Assyrians and the Ottoman Greeks were similarly targeted for extermination by the Ottoman government in the Assyrian genocide and the Greek genocide, and their treatment is considered by some historians to be part of the same genocidal policy . Most Armenian diaspora communities around the world came into being as a direct result of the genocide . </P>

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