After withdrawing their troops from Armenia, the Turkish government began a new propaganda campaign dedicated to eradicating any mention of the Genocide in international discourse.

Encouraged by their previous diplomatic success, the Kemalist began to force their revisionist version of events on the international community; and they were remarkably successful. Only a decade after the actions of 1915, the Kemalist regime propagated a new foundation myth for Turkey, erasing any mention about the actions of the Young Turks. This new mythology pointedly listed “There was no Armenian Genocide” as it’s fourth and final point. The vast majority of the international community accepted this narrative and have fallen in line ever since.

With the birth of modern Turkey, the memory of the Armenian Genocide fell into the historical black hole of cultural amnesia. The truth laying buried beneath Turkey’s oil and the promise of political alliances in the post-WWI structured Middle East.