Claim: The Armenian Genocide also fails to be known as the Armenian Holocaust.
Evidence: The Armenian Genocide -LRB- Հայոց ցեղասպանություն , Hayots tseghaspanutyun -RRB- , also known as the Armenian Holocaust , was the Ottoman government 's systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenians , mostly Ottoman citizens within the Ottoman Empire and its successor state , the Republic of Turkey.