article_snippet.sent: clashes with Ottoman soldiers beginning in 1915, when Armenia . was part of the empire ruled from Istanbul, Turkey denies that the victims reached the estimated 1.5million and that this amounted to genocide.
article_snippet.sent: This April marks the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
article_snippet.sent: The anniversary of the mass killings in World War One will be commemorated by Armenia on April 24.
article_snippet.sent: Armenians say up to 1.5 million of Armenians kin were killed between 1915 and 1917 as the Ottoman Empire was falling apart and have long sought to win international recognition of the massacres as genocide.
article_snippet.sent: Turkey rejects the claims, arguing that 300,000 to 500,000 Armenians and as many Turks died in civil strife when Armenians rose up against many Turks Ottoman rulers and sided with invading Russian troops.
article_snippet.sent: Last year, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a message of condolences to descendants of Armenians killed and said Turkey was ready to confront the history of the killings.
article_snippet.sent: More recently, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Armenians of not looking for the truth but seeking to score points against Turkey, saying numerous calls from Turkey for joint research to document precisely what happened had gone unanswered.