The denial of the Armenian Genocide did not start on the eve of the massacres but was an integral part of the Genocide plan. excerpts from the “Killing Orders”

Every genocide has its characteristics. The Armenian Genocide is characterized by long-term efforts to hide the truths related to it and to deny its historicity. One of the features of this century-long denial is also that the denial was specific to the Genocide from its very beginning. In other words, the denial of the Armenian Genocide did not begin on the eve of the massacres but was an integral part of the Genocide itself.

The deportation of Armenians from their homeland to the deserts of Syria and killings either on the way or at the final destinations were covered by the decision to resettle Armenians. The whole process was organized and carried out, trying to present the resettlement as a reality.

…The Congress of Berlin (1878) is considered the beginning of the long process of extermination of Armenians, and 1921 is the end of the process. So, the years between 1878 and 1923 can be characterized as a continuation stage of the Genocide process with three mass massacres of Armenians.

At least 100,000 Armenians died in the massacres organized by Sultan Abdul Hamid between 1894 and 1896. 20,000 Armenians were killed during the massacres of Adana in 1909, and the city was destroyed. Then, from 1915 to 1918 the entire Armenian population was displaced from its historical homeland. Of the 2 million Armenians in Anatolia in 1914, 40,000-60,000 Armenians are now living in Istanbul.

...The genocide ended the existence of Armenians living in most of their homeland and became an unspeakably heavy burden for Armenians. Armenians had to prove their extermination because the Turkish government denied it. Talaat Pasha's telegrams are extremely important to prove what happened. Those telegrams published by Aram Antonyan, along with the memoirs of Ottoman official Nayim, contain instructions to exterminate Armenians. By proving the authenticity of the telegrams and Nayim's memoirs, the politics of denial is finally defeated.

The documents disappeared from the library, but by a happy coincidence, Armenian Catholic clergyman Grigor Gergeryan copied them and took them to the United States in the 1950s. No one had studied that unique archive. Historian Taner Akcham contacted Gergeryan's descendants in 2015 and reached the documents, completing them in the book “Killing Orders”.