In April of 2015, the beginning of the Armenian genocide was remembered for its 100th anniversary. The Armenian genocide was a mass systematic killing of the Armenian people by the Turks through a death march in a Mesopotamian desert without food or water. Those who would stop to rest would get shot. Around 600,000 to 1.5 million Armenians had died. In 1915, the Turkish government had started the Armenian genocide with the help of killing squads to mass kill Armenians. The killing squads were made of murderers and ex-convicts. Their jobs were to kill the Armenians by throwing them off of cliffs, drowning them, or burning them alive.
Despite almost every other country agreeing that the Armenian genocide was a planned mass killing, the Turkish government still claims that it was an accident. The Turkish government has never officially accepted the genocide to be true. They claim that it was never intended for the Armenians to die during the march. One of the leaders that lead the Armenian genocide, Mehmed Talaat, explained in his own words that they never intended for the Armenians’ death. Because Talaat stated directly that it wasn't intentional, the government builds off of it and continues to deny the Armenian genocide. Should the Turkish government accept the Armenian genocide?
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