La mayoría de los historiadores fuera de Turquía reconocen que la persecución otomana de los armenios fue un genocidio.[1][2][3] Sin embargo, a pesar del reconocimiento del carácter genocida de la masacre de armenios tanto en la academia como en la sociedad civil, algunos gobiernos se han mostrado reticentes a reconocer oficialmente los asesinatos como genocidio debido a preocupaciones políticas sobre sus relaciones con la República de Turquía.[4]
Suny, Ronald Grigor (2009). «Truth in Telling: Reconciling Realities in the Genocide of the Ottoman Armenians». The American Historical Review114 (4): 930–946 [935]. doi:10.1086/ahr.114.4.930. «Overwhelmingly, since 2000, publications by non-Armenian academic historians, political scientists, and sociologists... have seen 1915 as one of the classic cases of ethnic cleansing and genocide. And, even more significantly, they have been joined by a number of scholars in Turkey or of Turkish ancestry...»
Göçek, Fatma Müge (2015). Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present and Collective Violence Against the Armenians, 1789–2009. Oxford University Press. p. 1. ISBN978-0-19-933420-9. «The Western scholarly community is almost in full agreement that what happened to the forcefully deported Armenian subjects of the Ottoman Empire in 1915 was genocide...»Parámetro desconocido |title-link= ignorado (ayuda)
Laycock, Jo (2016). «The great catastrophe». Patterns of Prejudice50 (3): 311-313. S2CID147933878. doi:10.1080/0031322X.2016.1195548. «... important developments in the historical research on the genocide over the last fifteen years... have left no room for doubt that the treatment of the Ottoman Armenians constituted genocide according to the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide.»
Kasbarian, Sossie; Öktem, Kerem (2016). «One hundred years later: the personal, the political and the historical in four new books on the Armenian Genocide». Caucasus Survey4 (1): 92-104. S2CID155453676. doi:10.1080/23761199.2015.1129787. «... the denialist position has been largely discredited in the international academy. Recent scholarship has overwhelmingly validated the Armenian Genocide...»