The Armenians of eastern Ottoman Empire were exterminated by the Ottoman government in 1915 and the following years . An estimated 1.5 million Armenians were killed , while the survivors found refuge in other countries . These events , which are known as the Armenian Genocide , are officially denied by the Turkish state , which falsely claims the killings were a result of a " civil war . " The Ottoman government successfully ended the over two thousand year Armenian presence in Western Armenia
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