article_snippet.sent: During these past days there have been several international organizations that adopt resolutions or issue statements that recognize the Armenian genocide and that appeal to Turkey to make this step," Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said.
article_snippet.sent: Armenian groups and many scholars say that Turks planned and carried out genocide, starting in 1915, when more than a million ethnic Armenians were massacred in the final years of the Ottoman Empire.
article_snippet.sent: Turkey officially denies that a genocide took place, saying hundreds of thousands of Armenian Christians and Turkish Muslims died in intercommunal violence around the bloody battlefields of World War I.
article_snippet.sent: The Armenian government and influential Armenian diaspora groups have urged countries around the world to formally label the 1915 events as genocide.
highlights_snippet.sent: Turkey denies the mass killings constituted a genocide .