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Mr. Aznavour's parents were Armenian refugees who escaped the Turkish genocide.

And we – our representatives, our diplomats – will ignore them when we meet the Turkish genocide deniers at Gallipoli next year.

Joseph Sarkissian's family came from the Mount of Olives in Palestine and his grandparents were thrown out of Armenia during the 1915 Turkish genocide.

Armenia, which had survived the ravages of the Turkish genocide and Stalin's purges, is an apt staging ground for the debate.

The Assyrian living in a string of 36 villages on the Khabour River are the descendants of the survivors of the Turkish Genocide of 1915 191818 and a further massacre in northern Iraq in 1933.

In May 2015, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian visited Syria, praising the Syrian people for helping Armenians during the last phase of the Turkish genocide of the last century.

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It was investigated in April for accusing the Turkish government of genocide against the Kurds.

While never excusing the atrocities, Akcam does argue that the Turkish leaders chose genocide in a mood of stark desperation.

Instead of admitting genocide, Turkish officials contend the Armenians were a dangerous fifth column that colluded with Russia in World War I; many Armenians may have died, they say, but there was no organized slaughter.

ISTANBUL -- Turkey halted diplomatic consultations and military dealings in a major rupture with France on Thursday after the lower house of the French Parliament approved legislation making it a crime to deny that the Turkish Army committed genocide against Armenians in the early 20th century.