Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Адмаўленне генацыду армян" in Belarusian language version.
The “Lewis Affair” began in the United States on May 19,1985, with the publication, both in the New York Times and in the Washington Post, of an advertisement addressed to members of the House of Representatives. The statement was signed by sixty-nine academics in Turkish studies and sponsored by die Assembly of Turkish American Associations. Among the signatories was die name of Bernard Lewis, the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern History at Princeton University.
The Institute of Turkish Studies and its director. Heath Lowry, were instrumental in securing the signature of sixty-nine academics in Turkish studies, many of whom had been awarded grants by the institute, for an open letter published as an advertisement in the New York Times and the Washington Post, and read more than once into the Congressional Record.
The Kemalist regime continued on all fronts the preceding Young Turk policies of effacing physical traces of Armenian existence: churches were defaced and buildings rid of their Armenian inscriptions. Although the Armenians were gone, in a sense they were still deemed too visible. In Diyarbekir city, a landmark event that marked the decay of Armenian existence was the collapse of the church, Surp Giragos. Another important stage was the razing of the local Armenian cemeteries.
