Editing Armenian genocide (section)

=== Armenia and Azerbaijan ===
[[File:Genocide Memorial complex from air on a sunny day, September 2017.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Aerial view of the [[Armenian Genocide memorial complex]] on a hill above [[Yerevan]]|alt=Spiky monument perched on a hill above a large city]]
[[Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day]] is commemorated on 24 April each year in Armenia and abroad, the anniversary of the [[deportation of Armenian intellectuals]].{{sfn|Cheterian|2015|p=110}}{{sfn|Ben Aharon|2019|p=347}} On 24&nbsp;April 1965, 100,000 Armenians [[1965 Yerevan demonstrations|protested in Yerevan]], and diaspora Armenians demonstrated across the world in favor of recognition of the genocide and annexing land from Turkey.{{sfn|de Waal|2015|pp=140, 142}}{{sfn|Cheterian|2015|p=110}} A memorial was completed two years later, at [[Tsitsernakaberd]] above Yerevan.{{sfn|Cheterian|2015|p=110}}{{sfn|de Waal|2015|pp=146–147}}

[[Karabakh movement|Since 1988]], Armenians and Turkic [[Azeris]] have been involved in a [[Nagorno-Karabakh conflict|conflict]] over [[Nagorno-Karabakh]], an Armenian enclave internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan. Initially involving peaceful demonstrations by Armenians, the conflict turned violent and has featured massacres by both sides, resulting in the displacement of more than half a million people.{{sfn|Bloxham|2005|pp=232–233}}{{sfn|Cheterian|2015|pp=279–282}}{{sfn|de Waal|2015|pp=196–197}} During the conflict, the Azerbaijani and Armenian governments have regularly accused each other of plotting genocide.{{sfn|Bloxham|2005|pp=232–233}} Azerbaijan has also joined the Turkish effort to deny the Armenian genocide.{{sfn|Koinova|2017|p=122}}