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The genocide of 1915 by the Ottoman Turks was well documented by both the “Letter from Turkey” by Mary L. Graffam, and the “Posthumous Memoirs” by Talaat Pasha. Both of these documents share a personal view of a situation that was experienced first hand. These two documents are basically testimonies for what happened at the time and they offer different points of view of the same events. Mary L. Graffams “Letter from Turkey” and the “Posthumous Memoirs” by Talaat Pasha are compatible with reference to the activities of the Ottoman Turks. The two documents compliment each other by basically providing testimony for the events that occurred. First of all Mary L. Graffam’s “Letter from Turkey” tells about the general deportation from Sivas. Also, her letter describes the way the Kurds attacked the Armenians while they were forced to travel. Finally, the letter describes the government’s lack of interest to do anything to treat the Armenians with any kind of dignity or humanity. At the same time, Talaat’s Memoirs speak of the same acts that were mentioned in Graffam’s letter. In his m