Armenian massacres

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1. The killing of large numbers of Armenians who lived within the Ottoman Empire and its successor Turkish state in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From 1915 to 1920, more than a million Armenians died as the result of executions, massacres, starvation, and other repressive measures, and many fled to the United States and other countries.

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At times, terrorists claiming Armenian connections have killed Turkish officials and bombed Turkish buildings, demanding reparations.

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While the state of Turkey refuses to acknowledge it to this day, historians have long recognized that the Armenian massacres amounted to a full-scale genocide.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

For that reason, it’s a poor principle, adopted in some civilised countries, to imprison the deniers of the Holocaust or the Armenian massacres, however contemptible they might be.

From Time • May 18, 2015

The issue of the Armenian massacres is deeply sensitive in Turkey.

From Reuters • Mar. 9, 2010

Compare the legacies of the Holocaust and the Armenian massacres of 1915.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Watson denounces the Armenian massacres or the Boer War, and the Unionists can hardly find words to express their pained surprise.

From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir