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April 23, 2024, Beirut, Lebanon: A Lebanese Armenian prays inside the cemetery of Armenians who were executed by Ottoman Turks, during a memorial service at the Armenian Church Catholicosate of Cilicia north of Beirut on the eve of the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide that was carried out in 1915-1917 by the Ottoman Empire and its then ruling party, the Committee of Union and Progress, during World War I. April 24 will mark the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, when more than 1.5 million Armenians were systematically exterminated by the Ottoman Turks, an event that Turkey denies to this day. (Credit Image: © Marwan Naamani/ZUMA Press Wire)
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