Encyclopedia Britannica edited the article on the Armenian Genocide, replacing the article "Armenian Massacre" with "Armenian Genocide".
The Turkish-Armenian history section includes an Armenian Genocide article, which points out that that it was a "brutal campaign conducted against the Armenian subjects of the Ottoman Empire by the Young Turk government during World War I (1914-18).The hundreds of thousands of deaths that occurred are the subject of intense debate between scholars and governments. Armenians charge that the campaign was a deliberate attempt to destroy the Armenian people and, thus, an act of genocide."
"The mass killing of Armenians during World War I was prefigured by a series of atrocities often called the Hamidian massacres. Beginning in 1894, Armenians suffered systematic massacres, carried out in the Armenian provinces of the empire by Kurdish irregulars and Ottoman troops, in retaliation for Armenian nationalist activity. In 1896 a group of Armenian revolutionaries briefly seized the Ottoman Bank in Istanbul, and thousands of Armenians were subsequently killed by mobs", the article reads.
The source also points out that "the killings that became known as the Armenian Genocide began in 1915 when the Ottoman authorities, seeking to prevent Armenians within the Ottoman Empire from collaborating with Russia in World War I, ordered the deportation of Armenian men of military age from the eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire to Syria and Mesopotamia. The order was quickly expanded to include all Armenians in the eastern provinces, about 1,750,000 in total. In the course of that forced exodus, hundreds of thousands of Armenians died of starvation or were killed by soldiers and police while en route in the desert. Estimates of the total death toll generally range from 600,000 to 1,500,000. Hundreds of thousands more were forced into exile". "The Turkish government has resisted calls to recognize it as such," the source stresses.