U.S. President Donald Trump has avoided using the word “genocide” in his statement on the so-called Armenian genocide, describing it as “Meds Yeghern,” an Armenian term meaning “great calamity,” APA reports.
The 1915 events took place during World War I when a portion of the Armenian population living in the Ottoman Empire sided with the invading Russians and revolted.
The relocation by the Ottomans of Armenians in eastern Anatolia following the revolts resulted in numerous casualties.
Turkey, which does not dispute casualties among both Armenian and Turkish communities during World War I, has called for the establishment of a joint commission of historians and the opening of archives to study and uncover what happened between the Ottoman Empire and its Armenian citizens.
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