As a scholar at the
Turkish Coalition of America (TCA), and in collaboration with the
Turkish American Legal Defense Fund, Fein actively participates in the Armenian-Turkish dispute with regard to their shared history and
denies the
Armenian Genocide constituted a genocide.
Bruce Fein has penned more than one column on the topic, including in
The Washington Times and
The Huffington Post.[SUP]
[17][/SUP] As opposed to the
International Association of Genocide Scholars, Fein asserts that the fate of Armenians during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of
World War I should not be characterized as a genocide, arguing that racial, ethnic or religious motivation for the deaths cannot be proven and that a 'political or military motivation for a death falls outside the definition.' [SUP]
[3][/SUP] He argued: "Armenian casualties from starvation, disease, and Ottoman Muslim killings were painfully high, perhaps 300,000-600,000. [...] The tragic Armenian losses and suffering deserve sympathy and commemoration, but no more so than their Ottoman Muslim counterparts."[SUP]
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