Peter Cowe

UCLA

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Narekatsi Chair in Armenian Studies at UCLA

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Today officially marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Armenian genocide. More than 1 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks between April 1915 and 1918.

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