Armenians maintain that 1.5 million of their kin were killed in a genocidal campaign by the Ottoman Turks at the time of World War I. While acknowledging that thousands of Armenians did indeed perish during the general turbulence of the period, Turkey insists that the number of victims is exaggerated, that mass numbers of Turks also died, and that no deliberate campaign of genocide took place.
Jermeni tvrde da je 1,5 miliona njihovih sunarodnika ubijeno u genocidnoj kampanji otomanskih Turaka u vreme Prvog svetskog rata. Potvrđujući da je više hiljada Jermena zaista stradalo u opštem metežu tog vremena, Turska insistira da je broj žrtava preuveličan, da su Turci takođe ginuli u velikom broju, kao i da se nije odigrala promišljena kampanja genocida.