For generations, the Turks ignored the very existence of the Armenian genocide. Todate, instead, they are forced to face its aweful numbers: 972.000 victims between 1915 and 1916 only, according to the document revealed only todate by historian Murat Bardakcki, who received it from the widow of Talat Pasha's in 1983. To justify the delay in the publishing, Bardacki says the times were not ripe for the Turkish society to face this topic until now. He also said the deportations of Armenians were "necessary", while most historians say right because of this document there is the definitive proof that the Armenian genocide really took place.