Recognize or Deny

Recognize or Deny

The nearest successful example [of “collective denial”] in the modern era is the 80 years of official denial by successive Turkish governments of the 1915-17 genocide against the Armenians in which some 1.5 million people lost their lives. This denial has been sustained by deliberate propaganda, lying and coverups, forging documents, suppression of archives, and bribing scholars. The West, especially the United States, has colluded by not referring to the massacres in the United Nations, ignoring memorial ceremonies, and surrendering to Turkish pressure in NATO and other strategic arenas of cooperation.

Stanley Cohen (1942-2013) 

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics

Hebrew University Jerusalem