Which explains why Ottoman leaders began a policy of deportation and extermination of the armenians within their empire?
a. they argued that Armenians were spreading anti-turk propaganda among the ottoman population
b. they claimed that armenians were trying to establish their own state withing the ottoman empire
c. they asserted that Armenians were trying to forcibly convert turks to islam
d. they asserted that armenians were supporting russia, an ottoman enemy in world war 1
C?