- mass
killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks took place during World War I
- Turkey
has resisted widespread calls for it to recognise the 1915-16 killings as
genocide
- hundreds
of thousands of Armenians died when the Ottoman Turks deported them en
masse from eastern Anatolia to the Syrian desert
- They
were killed or died from starvation or disease.
- genocide
is defined as carrying out acts intended "to destroy, in whole or in
part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group".
- Turkish
officials accept that atrocities were committed but argue that there was
no systematic attempt to destroy the Christian Armenian people. Turkey
says many innocent Muslim Turks also died in the turmoil of war.
- Argentina,
Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Russia and Uruguay are among more than 20
countries which have formally recognised genocide against the Armenians.
Why in news?
- France
recently passed a law which criminalises denial of armenial genocide
- Turkey
is upset with this move of france.
- Turkey
recalled its ambassdor and cut off military cooperation with france
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