The Armenian Genocide was the systematic extermination of ethnic Armenians from their historic homeland in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Initiated by the Young Turks government, the atrocities began on April 24, 1915, with the arrest and execution of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders, followed by forced marches, mass killings, and systematic starvation across the region. This horrific campaign of violence, widely recognized as a genocide by historians and numerous nations, led to the deaths of an estimated 1.5 million people and vast displacement. International bodies and human rights organizations have frequently called for full recognition and accountability for the events. The Republic of Turkey, the successor state to the Ottoman Empire, officially denies that the events constituted a genocide, asserting that the deaths were a result of wartime conflict and not a systematic extermination. This long-standing position of Genocide Denial continues to be a major point of contention in international relations and historiography.
Armenian Genocide
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