Original upload date: Fri, 17 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT
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https://haypress.de – Cenk Uygur is a Turkish-American lawyer, main host and creator of the YouTube program called "The Young Turks" (TYT). He has long been criticized for denying the Armenian Genocid
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e. Together with his Armenian-American co-host Ana Kasparian he has addressed this issue, explaining his views on the Armenian Genocide and depicting the reasons behind his initial genocide denial.
The program itself has been criticized for the name, as the original Young Turks political movement committed the Armenian Genocide.
Background: In 1991 Cenk Uygur wrote an article in The Daily Pennsylvanian in which he promoted Armenian Genocide denial. In 2016, he rescinded these statements, arguing: "My mistake at the time was confusing myself for a scholar of history, which I most certainly am not. I don’t want to make the same mistake again, so I am going to refrain from commenting on the topic of the Armenian Genocide, which I do not know nearly enough about."
