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The denial of the Armenian Genocide is the assertion that the Armenian Genocide did not occur in the manner or to the extent described by scholarship. Denial of the Armenian Genocide may be either forbidden or enforced in some countries. The Armenian Genocide is widely acknowledged by genocide scholars to have been one of the first modern, systematic genocides,〔Ferguson, Niall. ''The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West''. New York: Penguin Press, 2006, p. 177. ISBN 1-59420-100-5.〕〔 June 13, 2005.〕 as many sources point to the sheer scale of the death toll as evidence for a systematic, organized plan to eliminate the Armenians.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Senate Resolution 106 – Calling on the President to ensure that the foreign policy of the United States reflects appropriate understanding and sensitivity concerning issues related to Human Rights, Ethnic Cleansing, and Genocide Documented in the United States Record relating to the Armenian Genocide )〕 The governments of Turkey〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History News Network - Christopher Hitchens: Turkey Denies History )〕 and Azerbaijan〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=(Радио Свобода: Наши гости: Факты и мнения ) )〕 deny that the Ottoman authorities attempted to exterminate the Armenian people. The Turkish government acknowledges that during World War I many Armenians died, but counters that Muslim Turks died as well, and claims that the number of Armenian victims has been inflated, and that massacres were committed by both sides as a result of inter-ethnic violence and the wider conflict of World War I.〔 The denial of the Armenian Genocide is officially outlawed only in Greece.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Amendment to the Greek Penal Code )〕 Some countries, such as Switzerland,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Penal Code of Switzerland )〕 Italy,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Amendment to the Italian law adopted by the Senate on February 11, 2015, "Modifiche all’articolo 3 della legge 13 ottobre 1975, n. 654, in materia di contrasto e repressione dei crimini di genocidio, crimini contro l’umanità e crimini di guerra, come definiti dagli articoli 6, 7 e 8 dello statuto della Corte penale internazionale, e modifica all’articolo 414 del codice penale" )〕 Slovakia〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Section 424a of the Penal Code of Slovakia, "Incitement, Defamation and Threatening to Persons because of their Affiliation to Race, Nation, Nationality, Complexion, Ethnic Group or Family Origin" )〕 and others, which are often ascribed to have criminalized the denial of the Armenian genocide, in fact, outlawed the denial of genocides either in general or with the specific reference to the Holocaust and the genocides, war crimes and crimes against humanity within the meaning of the International Criminal Court's Rome Statue. ==Terminology== According to historian Yair Auron, while there is debate about its exact circumstances, "there can be no doubt about the fact of () genocide itself. In this sense, the denial of the Armenian genocide is very similar to the denial of the Holocaust."〔Yair Auron, ''The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the Armenian Genocide''. Transaction Publishers, 2000, p. 53. ISBN 0-7658-0881-1.〕 However, three historians specializing in Near Eastern Studies – Bernard Lewis, Justin McCarthy, and Heath Lowry, who are all members of the Institute of Turkish Studies – as well as the late Stanford Shaw from the Bilkent University, Ankara and independent scholars Guenter Lewy and Eberhard Jäckel are critical of the ''Armenian Genocide'' term. In 2004 the British historian Norman Stone wrote from Ankara to the ''Times Literary Supplement'' to deny "Armenian nationalist claims that a 'genocide' as classically defined had taken place".〔Poole, Steven. ''Unspeak: How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Reality'', Grove Press, 2007, ISBN 0-8021-4305-9, p. 95〕 The use of specific terminologies regarding the issue are debated, such as the word "deportation". Deniers claim that some of the specific words do not fit the realities of the period or they are not substantiated by the facts. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Armenian Genocide denial」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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