The systematic extermination of about 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman government during and after WWI inspired the formulation of a new term that would come to haunt the modern civilized world : genocide. It was a harbinger of other genocides that would deeply scar and stain the twentieth century. To this day, Turkey denies the genocide, instead claiming that the victims died of starvation or from the violence of isolated gangs or the unintended effects of legitimate deportation. These ongoing denials and evasions have generated enormous debate, criticism, and controversy within and without Turkey, all of which is laid out here for readers to sift through and evaluate.

Chapter 1. Historical Background -- Historical Perspective from the Ottoman Empire Onward / Sara Cohan -- 1909: The Adana Massacres / Bedross Der Matossian -- Did the Armenian Genocide Inspire Hitler? / Hannibal Travis -- The Assyrian Genocide Differs from the Armenian Genocide The Combat Genocide Association -- How Kim Kardashian's Ancestors Escaped / Michael Snyder -- Chapter 2. Context for the Armenian Genocide -- Government Responsibility in the Armenian Genocide / United to End Genocide -- Defining Genocide / Michael M. Gunter -- The Armenian Question / Universidad Iberoamericana -- Human Nature and Ethnic Conflict / Gregory G. Dinijian -- Remembering a Genocide Survivor / Michael J. Stone -- Chapter 3. Lasting Effects of the Armenian Genocide -- Trauma Reverberates Through the Generations / Anie Kalayjian and Marian Weisberg -- How Ending Genocide Denial Will Help Turkey / David Tolbert -- Alternatives for Ending Genocidal Events / Alex de Waal and Bridget Conley-Zilkic -- Students Are Still Fighting for Genocide Recognition / Melanie Nakashian -- Chronology.