Armenian genocide recognition
The recognition of the Armenian genocide is the acknowledgement of the fact that the Ottoman Empire's systematic massacres and forced deportation of Armenians from 1915 to 1923, both during and after the First World War, constituted genocide. Outside of Turkey and Azerbaijan, the historical consensus is that the Ottoman Empire's persecution of Armenians was a genocide. Despite this consensus, some governments have been reticent to officially acknowledge the killings as genocide, due to political concerns regarding their relations with the Turkish government. The Turkish government has demanded Armenia abandon genocide recognition efforts as a condition for normalizing diplomatic relations and lifting the ongoing Turkish-Azeri blockade of Armenia.
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