ABSTRACT
The years between 1973 and 1987 marks a period during which the Armenian Genocide truly reentered the international arena. The disinterest of the international community in addressing the Armenian fate during WWI was interpreted by some as the de facto success of the genocide. The world was forgetting the Armenians. This required a radical solution which manifested itself in the waves of assassinations of Turkish diplomats around the world. As deplorable as they were, the committed violence nonetheless evoked the need to once again address the Armenian issue which had been relegated to oblivion. This rediscovery manifested itself in both legal tackling of the matter in two UN reports authored in 1979 and 1985 respectively, but also by the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal in 1982. But perhaps the most significant aspect of this period was the rediscovery of the genocide by the academia, eventually making the Armenian fate the most studied case of genocide, second only to the Holocaust. But, the scholarly discovery triggered also a reaction, giving birth to the Turkish state sponsored academic denial of the genocide. The pinnacle of the recognition process came in 1987 when the European Parliament officially recognized the Armenian Genocide.
