article_snippet.sent: Many historians agree that the number was about 2 million.
article_snippet.sent: Estimates range from 300,000 to 2 million deaths between 1914 and 1923, with not all of the victims in the Ottoman Empire.
article_snippet.sent: But most estimates -- including one of 800,000 between 1915 and 1918, made by Ottoman authorities themselves -- fall between 600,000 and 1.5 million.
article_snippet.sent: While the  death toll is in dispute, photographs from the era document some mass killings.
article_snippet.sent: Some show Ottoman soldiers posing with severed heads, others with Some standing amid skulls in the dirt.
article_snippet.sent: the victims in the Ottoman Empire are reported to have died in mass burnings and by drowning, torture, gas, poison, disease and starvation.