Desmond Fernandes: "Denialism and the Armenian Genocide"

"Elif Shafak is currently being prosecuted in Turkey because fictional characters in her novel The Bastard of Istanbul speak of a genocide and the mass killing of Armenians. Academics, journalists, teachers, human rights activists and publishers also continue to be labelled as “traitors” to the state, criminalised and subjected to death threats and other forms of intimidation (both nationally and internationally) for merely recognising or debating this genocide."