The Armenian Genocide was centrally planned and administered by the Ottoman Empire against the entire Armenian population under its rule. It was carried out during World War I between the years 1915 and 1918. The Armenian people were subjected to deportation. torture. massacre. and starvation. Hundreds of thousands of Armenians were forcibly moved from Armenia and sent to the desert to die of thirst and starvation. Others were methodically massacred throughout the region. Most estimates illustrate that one and a half million Armenians perished between 1915 and 1923. There were an estimated two million Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire prior to World War I. and more than one million Armenians were deported in 1915. Hundreds of thousands more were either killed or died of hunger or exhaustion. Even after the systematic and deliberate actions of the Ottoman empire and the millions of Armenian lives that were taken. there still remains a denial on the part of the Turkish government that this genocide actually occurred.
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