Encyclopedia Britannica uses the term "Genocide"

• 04.16.2015, 19:50
•  Europe,  World

The administration of the oldest universal encyclopedia - Encyclopedia Britannica has recently edited the article concerning the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. In the material, the expression "Armenian Massacres" has been changed into the term "Armenian Genocide" where the word Genocide is written with the capital letter.

In the popular English-language Encyclopedia under the subtitle "Turkish-Armenian history" it is mainly written "Armenian Genocide, brutal campaign conducted against the Armenian subjects of the Ottoman Empire by the Young Turk government during World War I (1914–18).The hundreds of thousands of deaths that occurred are the subject of intense debate between scholars and governments. Armenians charge that the campaign was a deliberate attempt to destroy the Armenian people and, thus, an act of genocide. The Turkish government has resisted calls to recognize it as such, contending that, although atrocities took place, there was no official policy of extermination implemented against the Armenian people as a group."