The first two editions of Lewis ' '' The Emergence of Modern Turkey '' ( 1961 and 1968 ) describe the Armenian Genocide as " the terrible holocaust of 1915 , when a million and a half Armenians perished " . In later editions , this text is altered to " the terrible slaughter of 1915 , when , according to estimates , more than a million Armenians perished , as well as an unknown number of Turks " . In this passage , Lewis argues that the deaths were the result of a struggle for the same land between two competing nationalist movements
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Bernard Lewis