[The] willingness to ascribe to the deniers and their myths the legitimacy
of a point of view is of as great, if not greater,
concern than are the activities of the deniers themselves.
of a point of view is of as great, if not greater,
concern than are the activities of the deniers themselves.
—Deborah Lipstadt
The participation of a number of Armenian studies and genocide studies scholars (*) in the conference
“The Caucasus at the Imperial Twilight” in Tbilisi, Georgia, organized
by Prof. M. Hakan Yavuz of the University of Utah and sponsored by the
Turkish Coalition of America (TCA) has generated a controversy in the diaspora as well as in Armenia over the enabling of genocide denial.
The individual and organization at the heart of this conference have
for much of the past decade been actively engaged in efforts to extend
denial of the Armenian genocide into academia as well as in the
political realm in North America.
