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The Armenian Genocide

The Armenian genocide (Armenian: Հայոց Ցեղասպանություն ; in Turkish: Ermeni Soykırımı ), sometimes also called Armenian holocaust , Մեծ Եղեռն , great calamity or slaughter Armenia was the forcible deportation and slaughter of an unspecified number of civilian Armenians calculated approximately in the death of between one million and a half to two million people during the government of Young Turks in the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1917, during World War.

was marked by its brutality in the massacres and forced marches, the use of the deportations in extreme conditions, usually leading to death many of the deportees. Other ethnic groups were also slaughtered by the Ottoman Empire during this period, including Assyrians and Pontic Greeks. Armenia has been involved in a protracted ethnic-territorial conflict with Azerbaijan, a Turkish state that became independent in 1991 after the fall of the Soviet Union .

This conflict is the presence of several elements such as pogroms, massacres and ethnic cleansing by both sides. Some international observers and historians have suggested that Armenia and the Armenian Diaspora have tried to make changes to modern political conflict in the Caucasus, by suggesting that modern conflict is a continuation of the Armenian genocide. According to Thomas Ambrosio, the Armenian genocide provided "a reserve of public sympathy and moral legitimacy, which translates into a significant political influence ... in order to get support Congressional antiazeríes policies. "

rhetoric that led to the appearance of conflict that developed in the context of several massacres of the Armenians, was dominated by references to the Armenian genocide, including fears that it would repeated.

During the conflict, Armenian and Azeri governments regularly accused each other of the intention to commit genocide, although these claims have been treated with skepticism by outside observers. In general, Western historians agree that the genocide took place. The "International Association Of. Genocide Scholars ( International Association of Genocide Scholars ), a committee comprising members United States, the United Kingdom and Israel, formally affirms the existence of the Armenian genocide.

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