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"Turkey Says 523,000 Were Killed by Armenians Between 1910 and 1922
By SEBNUM ARSU

Published: April 17, 2005

IZMIR, Turkey, April 17 - The Turkish State Archive issued today a list of more than 523,000 Turks whom it said were killed by Armenians in Turkey between 1910 and 1922.
The move appeared intended to counter longstanding Armenian contentions that Turkish Ottoman officials committed genocide during a period of mass deportations of Armenians that began in 1915."

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