2015 marks the hundredth anniversary of the Armenian genocide. For much of these hundred years, the
destruction of the Ottoman Empire's Armenian subjects has been an understudied topic in academia. Its remembrance has been limited to the survivors of this great catastrophe, their successors and a surprisingly small circle of friends and sympathetic supporters.The single most important reason for this subdued presence of one of the formative moments of modern Turkish, European and Middle Eastern history in our debates and on our minds has been the continued and robust denial by official Turkey. [...]