Tucker Carlson: “Armenians are famous for being exterminated by the Ottoman…”

“Armenia is famous extent it's famous. Armenians are famous for well, being successful in business and quite cohesive as a community and very sincerely Christian observant. But probably they're most Armenians are famous for being exterminated by the Ottoman Turks at the end of the first World War. The Armenian genocide. And I think most people don't fully appreciate the extent to which that was religious persecution. That was a religious genocide and they were murdered because they were Christians.” (00:16–00:23)

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