8 facts about the Armenian genocide 100 years ago - CNN.com - 0 views
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Turkish FM: Why we won't recognize Armenian killings as genocide 05:07
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The mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, which began 100 years ago Friday, is said by some scholars and others to have been the first genocide of the 20th century, even though the word "genocide" did not exist at the time.
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on the night of April 23-24, 1915, the authorities in Constantinople, the empire's capital, rounded up about 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders. Many of them ended up deported or assassinated.
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