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    ARMENIA-TURKEY 'GENOCIDE' ROW: THE BACKGROUND

    EuroNews
    Jan 24 2012
    France

    Whether what happened to the Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman
    Empire can be called 'genocide' remains contentious - despite the
    ruling by the French senate which now makes it an offence to deny
    it was.

    However, the facts of what took place between 1915-23 are
    well-documented by a variety of sources - many of which had no vested
    interest in the what happened.

    As many as 1.5 million Christian Armenians were massacred or deported,
    after trying to use the First World War as an opportunity to escape
    repression from the Muslim Ottoman Turks.

    The Republic of Turkey, founded after the war, refuses to recognise
    the killing of Armenians as 'genocide'. Instead it argues that both
    sides suffered a large amount of casualties during a struggle against
    each other.

    A 44-metre high memorial near the Armenian capital Yerevan and the
    nearby Armenian Genocide Museum built into the hillside commemorate
    those killed by the Ottoman Turks. They receive hundreds of thousands
    of visitors every year.

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