On 18-12-1916, American President Wilson addressed a communication to the warring European powers, through which he requested to be informed of the purposes for which each of the two opposing camps was fighting.

The Allies of the Entente in their joint communication included among their goals:

-The liberation of the peoples who were under the deadly tyranny of the Turks.

-The expulsion of the Ottoman Empire from Europe, as it proved to be so radically alien to Western civilization.

In this text, the prominent historian Arnold Toynbee aims to document the response of the Allies to President Wilson, briefly recounting the massacres and genocides against the Christian and other indigenous populations by the Ottomans and the Young Turks, from the first settlement of Turkish tribes in the territories of the Byzantine Empire until 1916.