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The Armenian Genocide took place from 1915-1923. The Ottoman Empire ruled over most of the region. One of the countries
under the empire was Armenia. Armenia was a small country, but it was seperated by one huge variable. Out of all of the countries
under Ottoman rule, Armenia was the only one whose religion was Christianity. The rest of the countries were all Muslim. A
group of Turkish men known as the Young Turks, were in high power. They decided to remove the Armenians from their country...
they didn't stop there. They had there armies walk over 1.5 million Armenians along the Tigris River, with no food or drink
for anyone but the Turks. If anyone defied the Turks, they were killed, sometimes with their family members. All of this resulted
in about 1.5 million Armenians dying, and the later murders of the Young Turks. There is now a large argument going around
the world over whether it was a genocide. As clear as it is, some people are so worried about their ties with Turkey, that
they would pretend not to see the obvious. Turkey has denied the Armenian Genocide and said that it wasn't a genocide. They
say that they were removing the Armenians from a war zone. If this was so, they wouldn't have been pure evil.
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