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 | | Under Mehmet IV, in the second half of the 17th century, two efficient grand viziers, the Köprülüs (the father Mehmet Pasha was succeeded by his son Fazıl Ahmet Pasha), redressed the situation in a spectacular way. |
 | | With the capture of Ukraine from Poland, the victories won against the Venetian navy and the conquest of Crete (1668), the Köprülü revived the vigor and pride of the Ottoman Empire. |
 | | The Ottoman government took a decision fraught with consequences for both sides by transfering, until 1917, about 700,000 Armenians from the provinces of Van, Bitlis, Erzurum, from the districts of Adana, Mersin, Kozan, Maraş, Iskenderun, Antakya, from the province of Aleppo, to central and eastern Syria and northern Irak. |
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