Massacre of 1.5 million ethnic Armenians under the Ottoman Empire is widely acknowledged by scholars as a genocide . The Armenian Genocide was an event that occurred in 1915 when Turkey forcibly removed more than one and half million people from their homes to make way for the creation of what would become modern Turkey.
Massacre of 1.5 million ethnic Armenians under the Ottoman Empire is widely acknowledged by scholars as a genocide . Turkish government officially denies it saying hundreds of thousands of Turkish Muslims and Armenian Christians died in intercommunal violence .