sentences:  Prior to the 1915 Armenian Genocide, Haçin had a population of 35,000, of which 30,000 were Armenians and the rest ere Turks.Most of the Armenians were either massacred or taken to the Deir ez-Zor concentration camps in the Syrian desert.After the Armistice of Mudros in 1918, Cilicia became a protectorate of France as part of the Triple Entente.