Armenian genocide denial
Since 1920, every government of the Republic of Turkey has consistently denied that the Ottoman Empire (Turkey's predecessor state) and its ruling party, the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), committed genocide against its Armenian citizens during World War I—a crime documented in a large body of evidence and affirmed by the vast majority of scholars. The perpetrators denied the genocide as they carried it out, claiming that Armenians in the Ottoman Empire were resettled for military reasons, not exterminated.