Armenian Genocide
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The Armenian Genocide is a name given to a historic event where hundreds of thousands or perhaps millions of ethnic Armenians were raped, slaughtered, and deported to concentration camps under the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Turkey has denied that genocide occurred and referred to the time period as a confusing period where many people were killed because of political uprisings. Internationally, twenty-one countries have officially recognized the tragedy as genocide. This has been a problem in the Turkish-Armenian relationship.