Why does the world continue to deny the Armenian Genocide ever took place?

by Kazeon1

Okay so I am a real lover of History especially the first and second world wars. Asthma cough is this may sound two of the more interesting areas that I've always had of the wars are the more darker and less well understood or at least less well accepted parts of the wars. For instance things like the operations that were undertaken by the British Special Operations executive or the American OSS and their various assassination plots and the like. Obviously I have studied heavily into the Holocaust of World War II. Never having actually visited any of the camps in Europe. Unfortunately I lack the necessary monetary funds to go on a trip there. However my brother-in-law has been there and has shown various things that he saw. Though at these places he said that they expressly forbid photographs and video filming. Which of course is understandable.

But anyway everyone knows about the Holocaust of World War II. But something that is not known to The Wider world or at least most of the wider world is what one could probably call the first Holocaust of the 20th century. I am of course referring to the Armenian Genocide that was perpetrated by I believe it was the van Ottoman Empire. Why is it that this terrible event doesn't seem to receive the same level of historical attention that the Holocaust of World War II gets? Heck Germany following World War has actually acknowledged the Holocaust and even gone so far as to establish a monument to the Holocaust right in the middle of their capital city of Berlin. However the government of the nation of Turkey continue to deny that the Armenian Genocide ever took place. Why is this? How is it that the Armenian Genocide seems to be so much more terrible than the Holocaust despite the fact that both were absolutely deplorable acts of human savagery?

JosephWilliamNamath

Not to discourage further discussion, but you might find these older threads very helpful:

I hope that helps!