But as an American and as a citizen of the world, I am equally concerned about attempts to cover up and deny other genocides. It would be like a German government that had not acknowledged the Holocaust funding a Nazi Studies program at an American university. The difference is that Germany at least accepts responsibility and apologizes for the Holocaust of the Jewish people. The Turkish Government still denies in the historical record that the Armenian Genocide ever happened. Turkey, to promote its views, also tries to influence appointments to endowed professorships in Turkish studies that it is helping to establish at major universities in the United States.
Turkish officials deny any impropriety.
The full text of the petition calling for the resignation of professor Heath Lowery. The Denial of Genocide is a form of aggression. It continues the process of genocide. It prevents healing of the wounds inflicted by genocide. The Turkish government's tactics pave the way for state-sponsored Holocaust and Genocide denial tactics in the future.