McCarthy agrees that a million Armenians died during the massacres of 1915 – 1923 , but he argues that millions of Muslims in the region were also massacred in this period and many at the " hands of Armenian insurgents and militia " . He has claimed that all of those deaths during World War I were the product of intercommunal warfare between Turks , Kurds and Armenians , famine and disease , and did not involve an intent or a policy to commit genocide by the Ottoman Empire . McCarthy has been active in publishing the results of his work and analysis , that Ottomans never had an official state sanctioned policy of genocide , through books , articles , conferences , and interviews . This has made him a target of much criticism from historians and organizations . He was one of four scholars who participated in a controversial debate hosted by PBS about the Armenian Genocide in 2006 . Aviel Roshwald describes McCarthy 's " version of these events " as " defensively pro-Turkish . " Michael M. Gunter congratulated Justin McCarthy for '' Muslim and Minorities '' : " His work is clearly the best available on the subject and merits the close attention of any serious , disinterested scholar " ; and " his figure " of the Armenian losses ( 600,000 ) " is probably the most accurate we have . " Justin McCarthy 's work on the demography of Anatolian populations , especially the Armenians , was also recommended by , professor of Ottoman history at the Collège de France . Both Gunter and Veinstein have been accused of holding denialist positions on the Armenian Genocide
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Justin McCarthy (American historian)