http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47708000/jpg/47708568-17.jpgArmenians have been marking the anniversary of the deaths of hundreds of thousands of their compatriots in mass killings and deportations by Ottoman Turk forces in 1915-16.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47708000/jpg/47708569-15.jpgTo mark the anniversary of the beginning of the killings, thousands of people marched to a memorial in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, and laid flowers.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47708000/jpg/47708570-30.jpgArmenia says 1.5m people were killed in a genocide. But Turkey strongly rejects the charge of genocide, saying the number of deaths has been inflated and that the people died as a result of the strife of World War I.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47708000/jpg/47708571-21.jpgDespite the historic animosity, Turkey and Armenia signed a deal in 2009 to re-establish diplomatic ties.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47708000/jpg/47708572-23.jpgBut neither side has ratified the deal. Armenia said this week it was halting ratification, accusing Turkey of foot-dragging by demanding a peace agreement for Nagorno-Karabakh, a mainly ethnic-Armenian enclave of Azerbaijan that broke away in the 1990s.
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