Protesters commemorate Armenian deaths during the Ottoman Empire - Voice of America, 27 April 2002
Almost 1,000 people have marched through central London to commemorate the mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.
Participants in Saturday's street protest say they want the Turkish and British governments to recognize that the killing of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1919 was genocide.
| "Participants in Saturday's street protest say they want the Turkish and British governments to recognize that the killing of Armenians... was genocide" |
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The Armenian government claims that 1.5 million Armenian people were slaughtered during the final Ottoman years in what is now Turkey.
Turkey has rejected genocide claims, saying about 30,000 Armenians were killed in the civil unrest that preceded the empire's collapse.
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