Abstract
The crimes committed against Armenians in 1915 have been the object of painstaking and careful study over the past decades and are today commonly referred to as ‘genocide’ by scholars and public opinion. Against this backdrop — as well as of the various judicial decisions, including by Turkish courts, demonstrating that a policy of massacres and persecution did take place — the thesis of this article is that succeeding Turkish governments have adopted a sort of ‘moving defence’ to minimize, justify and ultimately deny the gravity of the campaign against Armenians for essentially political purposes. The article traces the origins of, and the turns taken throughout the past hundred years, by this ‘moving defence’.
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