But in Ankara he said he will set his personal views aside, and let the Turks and Armenians settle the matter themselves.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

Certainly in Europe, not until the massacres of the armenians of 1895, and arguably some Napoleonic atrocities, and Napoleon's armies' atrocities in Palestine, in Palestine, or in the south of Italy, or in Spain as well.

895年,土耳其人对亚美尼亚人实施种族灭绝,在这之前可能还包括拿破仑军队的一些暴行,比如在巴勒斯坦,意大利南部,以及西班牙等地的暴行

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But Turkey says the Armenians were victims of a civil war, and lives were lost on both sides.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

The non-binding resolution in the House Foreign Affairs Committee recommends that President Barak Obama recognize the 1915 killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

Experts also disagree on the number of Armenians killed by the Ottoman Turks.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

"There is no doubt that there was, in fact,a state organized, systematic deportation and massacre of a designated population, defined by their religion and ethnicity,namely the Armenians."

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

Recently the U.S.House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee passed a non-binding resolution recommending that President Barack Obama recognize the 1915 killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

So that if you say in 1915 there were two million Armenians in what we call Turkey, but the Ottoman Empire - there are now about 60,000 Armenians in Turkey.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

A majority of scholars and historians agree that the massacre of an estimated one million Armenians during World War I constitutes genocide as defined by the 1948 United Nations Convention on Genocide.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

The president talked not just about Turkey's future but its past, alluding to perhaps the most controversial moment in its history - the widespread killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

"Out of about two million Armenians that were thought to exist in 1915, probably about a million and a half - at least over a million - perished and others were dispersed.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

"And they then carried out systematically, deportations of Armenians from eastern Anatolia, first demobilizing the Armenian soldiers who were serving with the Ottoman army, forcing them to dig their graves and shooting them.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18