04-24-2021, 09:13 PM
Acer wrote:
While official government recognition of the destruction of Native American societies is lacking, the history is not officially suppressed. It seems to me that Turkey is much more assertive about its denial of the Armenian genocide. Is that true?
Yes, Turkey has been denying this for over a century. Part they deny no connection to possible massacres by putting it on the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans claimed attacks from the Armenians justified removing them from large areas near Russia. But no evidence ever supported those claims.
The current country of Turkey came out of a civil war after WW I and the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, the Armenian deaths are linked to the upheaval. All reports of observers are denied. There are also reports that the government records were scrubbed thoroughly to remove any documents that might support genocide claims.
Give the expulsion of other non-Turks from the country such as the ethnic Greeks and others, the academic research not funded and directed by the government of Turkey has supported that the genocide occurred. Turkish government backed organizations were created to fund research outside Turkey, including in the US.