The Armenian Genocide is almost unanimously acknowledged as a historical fact by historians and genocide scholars alike . It is also widely considered to have been the first modern genocide , with the word '' genocide '' itself having been invented by Raphael Lemkin to describe the sheer scale and success of the plan organized to systematically eliminate the Armenians . Revisionists typically argue the academic consensus of it being a genocide as anti-Turkish propaganda or as a conspiracy spread by the Armenians , instead claiming that it either did not occur or that it was somehow justified at the time. , '' Newsweek '' Denial of the Armenian Genocide is officially outlawed in France , Switzerland , Greece , Cyprus , and Slovakia
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
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