On the recordJune 18, 2008
Nearly 2 million Armenians were deported during the Armenian Genocide, which was carried out by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923, and approximately 1.5 million of those deported were killed.
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Obama discusses the historical facts of the Armenian Genocide.
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