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On April 24, the picture of the day of English Wikipedia was dedicated to the Armenian Genocide. It was a picture of an Armenian woman kneeling beside a dead child during the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire in 1915, Zhamanak reports.

“The inscription under the picture read: “The genocide is conventionally held to have begun on 24 April 1915, when Ottoman authorities arrested and later executed some 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders. Much of the remaining Armenian population were deported into the deserts of Syria, where most died from starvation, exhaustion, and systematic massacres. The total number of people killed has been estimated at between 1 and 1.5 million. Though the events are widely recognized as a genocide by historians, the Turkish government rejects such a description,”” the newspaper says.