Professor McCarthy writes:
* "Despite the presence of "Armenia" on nineteenth century maps and the assertion of European politicians, there was in fact no "Armenia" in the Ottoman Empire,

* The history of the events in Eastern Anatolia is no one-sided tale of massacre and deportation,

* Fate of the Muslim and Armenian refugees was remarkably similar. War, bandits, starvation and disease killed Turks and Armenians indiscriminately,

* Both the Ottomans and the Russians cleared border areas of part of their population in preparation for the war,

* In areas in which Ottoman authority was weak or in war zones Armenians suffered terribly,

* In areas to the south where Ottoman authority was strong, such incidents were few and refugees arrived in Syria in relative safety (as attested by the Armenians themselves),

* Any comparison between the Ottomans and the Nazis is ludicrous, as is the use of the word genocide to describe the actions of the Turks. What passed on between the Armenians and the Turks was not a genocide - it was a war!

* If the case against a genocide of Armenians need any further proof, one would have to look to Istanbul, the capital of the Empire and the area most under the government control."