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No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.

~Alan Hovhaness

Topics: Armenians Around Because He Him His Know Lost Mind Tragedy

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The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th century's first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.

~Chris Bohjalian

Topics: America Armenians Century First First World First World War Genocide Knows Million Most Next North North America Nothing Reality Slaughter Systematic War World World War

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On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed.

~Eliot Engel

Topics: Armenians Empire Estimated Eve Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Lived Million Over Simply Thousands Two War Well Were World World War World War I

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In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.

~Feisal Abdul Rauf

Topics: Armenians Century Created Example For Example Had Kurds Minorities Muslim Muslim World Nationalism Other Place Religious Turkey Turkish Vision World 20Th Century

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