Cairo, Egypt. 8th Jan, 2014. Egyptian Coptic Christians celebrate during a commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 1915 Armenian genocide at the Coptic Orthodox Church in Cairo on April 24, 2015. Historians estimate up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I, an event widely viewed by genocide scholars as the first genocide of the 20th century. Turkey, however, denies the deaths constituted genocide, saying the toll has been inflated and that those killed were victims of civil war and unrest © Amr Sayed/APA Images/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News

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Jan. 8, 2014 - Cairo, Cairo, Egypt - Egyptian Coptic Christians celebrate during a commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 1915 Armenian genocide at the Coptic Orthodox Church in Cairo on April 24, 2015. Historians estimate up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I, an event widely viewed by genocide scholars as the first genocide of the 20th century. Turkey, however, denies the deaths constituted genocide, saying the toll has been inflated and that those killed were victims of civil war and unrest (Credit Image: © Amr Sayed/APA Images/ZUMA Wire)