Turkish Denial of the Armenian Genocide
Imagine if someone told you the Holocaust never happened or that slavery never existed. Your eyes would roll. The Armenian Genocide is a historical fact yet Turkey, the perpetrator, continues to deny it. This is not the case of a few crackpot individuals or small groups falsifying and fabricating history. This denial has the power, prestige, authority and financial support of the Turkish government. That the coverup persists is a scandal with broad political, cultural and moral implications. This program features a lively discussion with Robert Jay Lifton, Roger Smith and Peter Balakian. Lifton is a distinguished author and professor at the John Jay College of the City University of New York. Smith teaches at William and Mary and is recognized as an expert on the Armenian Genocide. Balakian teaches at Colgate University and is a well-known poet and author.
Recorded at John Jay College, CUNY.
Speakers
Robert Jay Lifton
Robert Jay Lifton was distinguished professor emeritus of John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He also taught at Harvard and Yale. His book Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima won the National Book Award. He is also the author of The Nazi Doctors, The Climate Swerve, Superpower Syndrome, and Surviving Our Catastrophes. He wrote in his memoir Witness to an Extreme Century, “What we choose to study as scholars is a reflection of our advocacies, our passions, spoken or otherwise.” He died in 2025.
Peter Balakian
Peter Balakian, historian, poet, and professor at Colgate University, is the author of Black Dog of Fate and The Burning Tigris, and translator of Armenian Golgotha. In 2016 he won a Pulitzer Prize for his collection Ozone Journal.
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