However , in 1915 the Armenians suffered great hardship under the Young Turk administration owing to the desire of the Turkish government for its peoples to be religiously homogeneous ( i.e. , Muslim ) , motivated perhaps by an imagined threat of Armenians from Russian influences with whom Turkey was at war . The Armenian community of Turkey in 1915 was accordingly decimated by mass deportations and killings . The events surrounding this ethnic cleansing of Armenians from Turkey have become known as the Armenian Genocide . The inability of Turkey to acknowledge these events has been a source of significant angst among Armenians worldwide for the past hundred years . Prior to 1915 , almost two million Armenians lived in Turkey ; today ( 2015 ) less than 100,000 reside there
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
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