{{Further|[[Historical revisionism (negationism)#Turkey and the Armenian genocide|Denial of Armenian genocide]]}}
Almost all Turkish intellectuals, scientists and historians accept that many Armenians died during the conflict, but they do not necessarily consider these events to be genocide. A small number of Western academics including [[Bernard Lewis]] (Princeton University), Heath Lowry (Princeton University), Justin McCarthy (University of Louisville), J.C. Hurewitz (Columbia University), [[Guenter Lewy]] (University of Massachusetts), Gilles Veinstein (College de France), Stanford Shaw (UCLA, Bilkent University), Roderic Davison (Central European University), and Rhoads Murphey (University of Birmingham) have expressed doubts as to the genocidal character of the events. They offer the opinion that the weight of evidence instead points to serious intercommunal warfare, perpetrated by both Muslim and Christian irregular forces, aggravated by disease and famine, as the causes of suffering and massacres in Anatolia and adjoining areas during the First World War. They acknowledge that the resulting death toll among the Armenian communities of the region was immense, but claim that much more remains to be discovered before historians will be able to sort out precisely responsibility between warring and innocent, and to identify the causes for the events which resulted in the death or removal of large numbers in eastern Anatolia.<ref>[http://www.kultur.gov.tr/EN/BelgeGoster.aspx?17A16AE30572D313AAF6AA849816B2EF1C84F6AF25503811 Republic of Turkey - Ministry of Culture and Tourism - "How Do Scholars React To Allegations Of Genocide?" - Armenian Issue - Allegations-Facts]</ref> <ref>[http://www.histoire.presse.fr/product_anciens.asp?Sku=187 Gilles Veinstein (1995) "Trois questions sur un massacre", L’Histoire, Volume 187] </ref>
