Abstract: This article examines the debate involving Turkish and Armenian historiography about the fate of diverse Armenian communities in eastern Anatolia. It argues that the contemporary description of the events in 1915, especially the legal description, is much more important than the facts and the role of human agency in which these facts were produced. Armenian historiography scholars have moved to label the set of complicated events and processes as ‘genocide,’ and they seek to delegitimize any argument or factual case pointing outside the term of genocide as denialism. Scholars representing Turkish historiography, on the other hand, emphasize a different context of ethnic cleansing and massacres of the Muslims in the Balkans and their unintended consequences in Anatolia, while insisting on the role of major powers and Armenian revolutionary groups to carve out eastern Anatolia as an Armenian national homeland. The article explores how the Armenian side has urged judicial forums and countries to rewrite and reinterpret history in order to canonize its description of the events as genocide by ignoring the political context, intentions and policies of Armenian revolutionary organizations during that critical period. It proposes a path in which diametrically opposing sides can come together by humanizing the mutual suffering of each group and developing a shared language that encompasses the mutual impact of the events of 1915.

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土耳其亚美尼亚的历史争议：如何命名1915年的事件？

摘要：本文探讨了土耳其和亚美尼亚史学有关安纳托利亚东部不同亚美尼亚社区命运的辩论。它认为，对1915年事件的当代描述，尤其是法律描述，比事实和产生这些事实的人类代理机构的作用更为重要。亚美尼亚史学学者已采取行动，将一系列复杂的事件和过程标记为“种族灭绝”，他们力求使种族灭绝之外的任何论点或事实案例合法化，这是否认主义。另一方面，代表土耳其史学的学者则强调了巴尔干地区种族清洗和屠杀穆斯林的不同背景，以及他们在安纳托利亚的意外后果，同时坚持大国和亚美尼亚革命团体的作用，将安纳托利亚东部作为亚美尼亚的民族家园。本文探讨了亚美尼亚方面如何敦促司法论坛和国家重写和重新解释历史，以便通过忽略该关键时期亚美尼亚革命组织的政治背景，意图和政策来规范其对种族灭绝的描述。它提出了一条途径，通过使每个群体的相互痛苦人性化并发展一种涵盖1915年事件的相互影响的共同语言，可以使完全相反的双方走到一起。本文探讨了亚美尼亚方面如何敦促司法论坛和国家重写和重新解释历史，以便通过忽略该关键时期亚美尼亚革命组织的政治背景，意图和政策来规范其对种族灭绝的描述。它提出了一条途径，通过使每个群体的相互痛苦人性化并发展一种涵盖1915年事件的相互影响的共同语言，可以使完全相反的双方走到一起。本文探讨了亚美尼亚方面如何敦促司法论坛和国家重写和重新解释历史，以便通过忽略该关键时期亚美尼亚革命组织的政治背景，意图和政策来规范其对种族灭绝的描述。它提出了一条途径，通过使每个群体的相互痛苦人性化并发展一种涵盖1915年事件的相互影响的共同语言，可以使完全相反的双方走到一起。