article_snippet.sent: One hundred years ago, more than 1 million Armenians (some estimates run as high as 1.5 million) died at the hand of the Turks.
article_snippet.sent: A slew of  historians and at least 20 countries call the killings a "genocide.
article_snippet.sent: Turkish officials disagree, arguing that the deaths, while unfortunate, were part of a long-running war that witnessed casualties on all sides.
article_snippet.sent: Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI called the killings "a great evil" and "terrible persecution" in a speech 2006, but avoided labeling the killings genocide.
article_snippet.sent: The first, which is widely considered 'the first genocide of the 20th century,' struck your own Armenian people.