Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that he will attend the ceremony in Yerevan to commemorate the 1915 events.

Armenia says up to 1.5 million Ottoman Armenians were killed in a genocide starting from 1915. Turkey denies that the deaths amounted to genocide, saying the death toll of Armenians killed during mass deportations has been inflated and that those killed in 1915 and 1916 were victims of general unrest during World War I.

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