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For several months in 1994, someone posted messages under the alias Serdar Argic claiming that the Armenian Genocide did not happen or that Armenians massacred Turks, on Usenet newsgroup threads mentioning the word Turkey.
Samuel Weems published the book Armenia: The Secrets of a "Christian" Terrorist State in May 2002. Weems has made such claims as the "number one export of Armenia is terrorism" and that there was no Armenian Genocide. Samuel Weems was disbarred as an attorney and charged with arson and insurance fraud. disbarred His wife was also Turkish.
American historian Justin McCarthy is known for his controversial view that no genocide was intended by the Ottoman Empire but that both Armenians and Turks died as the result of civil war. Some attribute his denial of the Armenian Genocide to anti-Armenianism, but there is no independent evidence that he holds anti-Armenian views.
On more than one occasion, modern Azerbaijani historian Farida Mammadova has made anti-Armenian statements. During one interview, she stated "it is known, that on the whole planet it is exactly the Armenian people who are distinguished by their absence of spiritual and other human values", in reference to supposed destruction of an Azeri holy sanctuary, Aga-Dede south of Yerevan by Armenians in late 2005.
Barbaros Agri, a Turk uses the social networking site Facebook to advocate anti-Armenianism by being the creator of "The Biggest Lie Ever Told: The Armenian Genocide". The cause has 93,000 plus members. Agri's final comment was, "After years of research I have come to the conclusion that there was an Armenian genocide. I can not with a clear conscience continue this cause."
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