"Will Untapped Ottoman Archives Reshape the Armenian Debate?
Turkey, Present and Past
by Yücel Güçlü
Middle East Quarterly
Spring 2009, pp. 35-42
The debate over what happened to Armenians in World War I-era Ottoman Anatolia continues to polarize historians and politicians. Armenian historians argue that Ottoman forces killed more than one million Armenians in a deliberate act of genocide.[1] Other historians—most famously Bernard Lewis and Guenter Lewy—acknowledge that hundreds of thousands of Armenians died but question whether this was a deliberate act of genocide or rather an outgrowth of fighting and famine."
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