Turkish Leader Denies Ottoman, Turkish Mass Atrocities
Erdoganโs denial of genocide attracts more attention to Turkish mass crimes
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's June 30 speech denying genocide and mass crimes in Turkish history has drawn scrutiny from scholars and advocacy organizations. Erdogan claimed that "our history contains no genocide, no massacres, no oppression, and no colonialism," assertions disputed by historians and research institutions.
The Hellenic Canadian Research Institute has documented extensive Ottoman and Turkish-era mass atrocities spanning from 1821 to 1923, including the Hamidian Massacres (1894-1896) that killed an estimated 300,000 Armenians and 25,000 Assyrians, the Greek Genocide (1914-1923) resulting in over 1 million deaths, the Assyrian Genocide (1915-1923), and numerous other documented incidents targeting Christian populations across the Ottoman Empire and Turkey.
