Last Friday there was an extremely biased, highly misrepresentative and clearly false argument presented by Professor McCarthy as he denied the genocide of Armenians in 1915. It is important to note that an overwhelming majority of the information presented in McCarthy's lecture came from his own research - the same research which has been called "carelessly written, often misinformed, and shamelessly following a Turkish nationalist agenda" by prominent scholars such as the International Association of Genocide Scholars and the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.
During his speech, McCarthy presented radical ideas that contradict the Institute of Holocaust and Genocide, along with the Institute for the Study of Genocide, which have affirmed the historical fact of the Armenian Genocide. McCarthy grossly overexaggerated numbers of Armenians who resisted extermination and blamed the lives of Ottomans lost during WWI on Armenians, who as McCarthy noted were an extreme minority.
When asked about telegraphs describing the genocide, like several sent by the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, McCarthy simply ignored this evidence by accusing the ambassador of being a racist.
Overall, McCarthy had only his own research to support his statements.
