Last week, I exposed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s totally false statement: “Our history contains no genocide, no massacres, no oppression, and no colonialism. Throughout our thousands of years of glorious history, there has been only justice and compassion.”
To counter Erdogan’s lies, I presented the first part of the list of crimes committed by the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey, prepared by the Hellenic Canadian Research Institute.
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As I commented in the previous article, since one cannot reason with a delusional genocide denier like Erdogan, and the large mass of Turkish genocide deniers, the only way to deal with them is to expose their dirty historical laundry, hypocrisy and lies to an international audience, from heads of state and government, parliaments, universities to schools.
Apart from more academic research and more international lobbying, I am afraid that awareness of the Armenian Genocide beyond academia and parliaments, among the “ordinary” international public is lacking, and I believe more public awareness campaigns and high-profile documentaries need to be made and aimed at them, starting in schools, including making high-profile Hollywood films. Hollywood should be tapped to leverage its massive cultural influence, by making the Armenian Genocide known to a much wider global audience with high-profile Hollywood films.