"The question is settled. There are no more Armenians."
Talaat Pasha (Mehmed Talaat) · 1915
Reportedly said by Talaat Pasha to a German embassy interlocutor (most often Dr. Mordtmann) when pressed about the Armenian deportations. Quoted by Henry Morgenthau as a representative example of Talaat's position in summer 1915; the conversation is reproduced in chapter XXV of Morgenthau's memoir.