Answer:
The Turkish rulers granted the Armenians their independence.
Explanation:
When the Young Turkish came to power in 1908, overthrowing the government of the sultan Abdul Hamid, their goal was to Turkify the whole country, and since Armenian were the most different, being chirstian, non muslim, non turkish they were sent to deportation, and hundreds of thousands died from this exodus on the desert, they also executed the armenian intellectuals and common folks, the only thing that didn´t happend was the Armeninan independence, which happened untill 1990, after the population voted to separate themselves from the USSR.