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duced as evidence at the Nuremberg trials because ithad been leaked to the press earlier, Lowry casts doubton the authenticity of the statement. He emphasizes thefact that the statement was made, in the context ofHitler's preparations for the conquest of Poland anddid not allude to plans for the extermination of theJews. Lowry claims that the quotation is "spurious"because in other records of the speech, and there areat least three variants, no reference is made to Armenians.This attempt to revisit the Hitler quotation wasaimed at questioning the linkage between the Armeniangenocide and the Holocaust.¹ 5. 15 ¹Gunter, Michael M. "Turkey"and the Armenians. InMultidimensional Terrorism. Ed. by Martin Slann andBernard Schechterman. Boulder, CO, and London:Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1987. LC 87-4898. ISBN1-55587-030-9. See pp. 57-71.The article responds to a series of charges madeby the English-language Armenian, popular media inthe United States regarding "counterterror" by Turkeyand the "harassment" of the Armenian community inTurkey. It also recites the "Turkish response" andconcludes with the author's "synthesis:" 1) "Turkishsensitivities about minorities and a desire to have aTurkey for the Turks is understandable ... " (p. 67); 2)and reli-"Unofficial pressures to conform culturallygiously undoubtedly exist in Turkey today, but howis this different than in any other country?" (p. 67); 3)"there is no evidence that the Turkish government isdestroying historical Armenian churches and monumentsas an official policy. .. " (p. 68). He dismisses thelastmatter as specious allegations in the Armenian "diet"of disinformation.* 5. 16 ¹Sonyel, Salahi R. The Turco-Armenian 'Adana Incidents'in the Light of Secret British Documents (July1908-December 1909). Ankara: Turkish HistoricalSociety, 1988. Originally issued in'Belleten 51, no.201 (1987): 1, 291-1, 338.One of the more carefully crafted works ofrevisionism on the massacre of Armenians in the regionof Adana in 1909, the work strives to depict the seriesof killings which visited all the towns of the area asthe result of armed conflict between Armenians andTurks. Based in part on British sources, secret onlyto the extent that they constitute Foreign Office documents,Sonyel places the massacre in the context of the1909 palace counterrevolution and the consequentserious disruptions of civil society in Turkey. However,Sonyel finds that the Armenian reaction to the YoungTurk Revolution of 1908 and the counterrevolution wasso provocative that the Turks became frightened by theprospect of the Armenians overthrowing the governmentin Adana, and therefore retaliated.¹ 5. 17 ¹Corsun, Andrew. "Armenian Terrorism: A Profile. "Department of State Bulletin 82, no. 206 (August1982): 31-35.Although this article focused on the threat ofArmenian terrorism, it became the source of thelanguage used to characterize the Armenian genocidein the American media. For instance, the "massdeportation" of the Armenians is presented as fact; thedeath toll, however, is qualified as "alleged. " Sincethat time this qualification has stuck and the use of thephrase "alleged genocide" gained currency. Morecritical in enunciating the position of the Reaganadministration was the final "Note" appended to thearticle, which even further qualified the allegednessof the Armenian genocide. "Because the historicalrecord of the 1915 events in Asia Minor is ambiguous,the Department of State does not endorse allegationsthat the Turkish Government committed a genocideagainst the Armenian people. Armenian terrorists usetheir allegation to justify in part their continuing attackson Turkish diplomats and installations. .. " In theSeptember 1982 issue of theBulletin, further ambiguitywas inserted in an "Editor's Note" which stated thatthe Corsun article "does not necessarily reflect anofficial position of the Departmentof State, and theinterpretative comments in the article are solely thoseof the author. " However, the subheading of the Bulletinreads "The Official Monthly Records of United StatesForeign Policy. " Since that time the U. S. governmenthas avoided the use of the term "genocide. "¹ 5. 18 *Ankara University. Symposium on InternationalTerrorism: Armenian Terrorism, Its Supporters, theNarcotic Connection, the Distortion of History. Ankara:Ankara University Press, 1984.This is a collection of some twenty presentationswhich purportedly describes the problem of Armenianterrorism and demonstrates that it is supported by drugtrafficking and the misrepresentation ofhistorical truth.Some of the papers on terrorism by Western analystscontain useful information for understanding theproblem. These contrast sharply with the remainingpapers whose main thrust is historical revisionism underthe guise of studying a contemporary problem. Theseinclude: Heath W. Lowry, "Nineteenth and TwentiethCentury Armenian Terrorism: 'Threads of Continuity'";Justin McCarthy, "Armenian Terrorism: History asPoison and Antidote"; Michael M. Gunter, "ContemporaryAspects of Armenian Terrorism"; Turkkaya Ataov,"Procurement of Arms for Armenian Terrorism:100 GENOCIDE