Joop.nl, 24 januari 2012
Dr. Ewout H. Klei, Politiek Historicus bij Archief- en Documentatiecentrum (NL)

Volgens Turkije zijn er honderd jaar geleden erge dingen gebeurd, maar gaat het veel te ver om deze gebeurtenissen een genocide te noemen. Men spreekt liever over de Armeense kwestie. Turkije heeft een punt. In tegenstelling tot de Holocaust is de Armeense genocide omstreden. Werd van overheidswege besloten de Armeniërs uit te moorden? Hierover bestaat in de geschiedschrijving geen consensus. De gepolitiseerde controverse sleept zich al tientallen jaren voort.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 19, 2009
Dr. Gwynne Dyer, former Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (UK)

Istanbul ordered the Armenian minority to be removed from eastern Anatolia on the grounds that their presence behind the lines posed a danger to Turkish defenses. Wealthy Armenians were allowed to travel south to Syria by train or ship, but the impoverished masses were marched over the mountains in the dead of winter. They faced rape and murder at the hands of their guards, there was little or no food and many hundreds of thousands died. If genocide just means killing a lot of people, then this certainly was one. If genocide means a policy that aims to exterminate a particular ethnic or religious group, then it wasn't.

The Light Millennium - UNDPI/NGO, April 21, 2009
Prof. Dr. Justin McCarthy, Louisville University in Kentucky (USA)

Conflict between the Turks and the Armenians was not inevitable. The two peoples should have been friends. When World War I began, the Armenians and Turks had been living together for 800 years. The Armenians of Anatolia and Europe had been Ottoman subjects for nearly 400 years. There were problems during those centuries-problems caused especially by those who attacked and ultimately destroyed the Ottoman Empire. Everyone in the Empire suffered, but it was the Turks and other Muslims who suffered most.

Turkije Instituut, april 2009
Waar Prof. Dr. Erik-Jan Zürcher voorzitter Wetenschappelijke Adviesraad is (The Netherlands)

De huidige ‘Armeense kwestie’ verwijst naar de onenigheid over de interpretatie van de lotgevallen van de Osmaanse Armeniërs tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog (1914-1918). Talat Paşa (minister van Binnenlandse zaken en een van de leiders van de toenmalige Osmaanse regering) verordonneerde waarschijnlijk in maart 1915 de ‘relocatie’ van de Armeense bevolking vanuit Oost- en Centraal-Anatolïe naar de Syrische woestijn, als een oorlogsmaatregel om de nationale veiligheid te garanderen.

Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Vol. 28, No. 2, August 2008
Erman Şahin, researcher (Turkey)

The tragic fate of the Ottoman Armenians during World War I, the massacres that accompanied their forced migration, and the role of the Committee of Union and Progress —the ruling faction in the Ottoman government during World War I— constitute one of the murkiest chapters in the modern history of the Middle East. This article argues that those who have dealt with this complex subject have not always respected the limits set by scholarly ethics and have failed to use their sources scrupulously while engaging in distortions, deliberate quoting out of context and doctoring of data.