One and onehalf million Armenian people were massacred by the Ottoman Turkish Empire between 1915 and 1923. More than 500.000 Armenians were exiled from a homeland that their ancestors had occupied for more than 3.000 years. As a result of the killings and deportations. the Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire was reduced from 21/ million to fewer than 100.000. A race of people was nearly eliminated. and the Turkish Government to this day refuses to acknowledge that this genocide ever happened. Today. 78 years later. we commemorate those who lost their lives. and we urge the modern Turkish Government to acknowledge the atrocities of the past.
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