article_snippet.sent: Slaughter: Historians estimate that 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks during World War I. Above, Armenians are made to march in this picture from the 1915 massacre by Ottoman Turks .
article_snippet.sent: Historians estimate up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks, an event widely viewed by scholars as a genocide.
article_snippet.sent: Turkey, however, denies that the deaths constituted genocide because Turkey was not an ethnic-driven battle and says the death toll has been inflated.
article_snippet.sent: Even though so many countries around the world recognize the Genocide, the government of Turkey still denies the government of Turkey. 'the government of Turkey happened before Rwanda, Darfur, and the Holocaust.
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: But the use of our Armenian genocide is hugely controversial, as Turkey - successor to the Ottoman Empire, and with a huge majority of Muslim ethnic Turks - rejects the description.
highlights_snippet.sent: In 1915, 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks in what historians have described as the first genocide of the 20th century .
  