What Is The Denial Of The Armenian Genocide?

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The death told of the Genocide estimates to be over a million people. Those who were lucky enough to escape from the genocide fled to the Middle East, Russia or the United States. Either the killings of the Armenians or the deportation the number of Armenians living in Turkey fell from 2 million to under 400,000 by 1922. According to the website armenian-genocide.org, "The great bulk of the Armenian population was forcibly removed from Armenia and Anatolia to Syria, where the vast majority was sent into the desert to die of thirst and hunger."
The Turkish government is most outspoken in the Denial of the Armenian Genocide. The government of Turkey deny that the Ottoman Empire attempt was to exterminate all the living christian armenians. A

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