The Young Turks And The Kidnapping Of Women

At the same time, the Young Turks created a “Special Organization” which organized “killing squads” or “butcher battalions” to carry out “the liquidation of the Christian elements.” These killing squads were usually made up of murderers and other ex-convicts. They drowned people in rivers, threw them off cliffs, crucified them and burned them alive. In short order, the Turkish countryside was littered with Armenian corpses. (Armenian Genocide)
Records show that during this “Turkification”, campaign government squads were also involved in the kidnapping of children. They then forcibly converted them to Islam and gave them over to Turkish families. In some places, women were raped and forced to join Turkish “harems” or serve as slaves. Deported