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Explained: The killing of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire

US President Joe Biden is poised to recognise the mass killing of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as a genocide, against the wishes of Turkey’s government. What happened to the Armenians in 1915?
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