BEIRUT, Lebanon—The Armenian Revolutionary Federation Zavarian Student Association on April 4 demonstrated a peaceful stance of rejection against the University of Holy Spirit of Kaslik’s reception of an Armenian Genocide denialist, Turkish historian Ä°lber Ortaylı, through a lecture/debate on the history of contemporary Turkey. Video footage of the demonstration can be found on Zavarian Student Association’s Facebook page.
The Holy Spirit University of Kaslik hosted the denialist historian Ortaylı, who spreads falsified information about the history of Turkey all around the world, and now in Lebanon.
He claims that the Ottoman Empire, the predecessor of the present-day Turkey, has been a tolerant state, giving religious and civil freedom to the minorities of the former empire.
Zavarian Student Association members peacefully chanted “Genocide denialist, shame on you, we are hereâ€
