1: Ninety-one percent of Turks do not believe that the events of 1915 -- when , according to Armenians , 1.5 million ethnic Armenians were systematically killed in the final years of the Ottoman Empire -- were genocide , according to a recent poll . 2: It 's a heavily disputed position -- the killings are widely viewed by scholars as genocide and the Armenian government and diaspora are lobbying for wider recognition in the international community . 3: Massacre of 1.5 million ethnic Armenians under the Ottoman Empire is widely acknowledged by scholars as a genocide .
1: were systematically killed 2: the killings 3: Massacre of 1.5 million ethnic Armenians under the Ottoman Empire