Editing University of Utah (section)

====Turkish Studies Program and Armenian genocide denial====
The university's Turkish Studies Program, funded by [[Turkish Coalition of America]] and headed by [[M. Hakan Yavuz]], has been criticized for promoting [[Armenian genocide denial]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Former U Student Calls Out U Professor For Denial of Armenian Genocide |url=https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2020/10/31/calls-for-u-political-science-professor-to-be-fired-after-denial-of-armenian-genocide/ |access-date=December 13, 2020 |work=The Daily Utah Chronicle |date=October 31, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hovannisian |first1=Richard G. |author1-link=Richard G. Hovannisian |title=Denial of the Armenian Genocide 100 Years Later: The New Practitioners and Their Trade |journal=Genocide Studies International |date=2015 |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=228–247 |doi=10.3138/gsi.9.2.04|s2cid=155132689 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/690 }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite journal |last1=Mamigonian |first1=Marc A. |title=Academic Denial of the Armenian Genocide in American Scholarship: Denialism as Manufactured Controversy |journal=Genocide Studies International |date=2015 |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=61–82 |doi=10.3138/gsi.9.1.04|s2cid=154623321 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/690 }}</ref> Nevertheless, the university had established itself as a "denialist beachhead" prior to the creation of the Turkish Studies Program.<ref name=":0" /> The [[University of Utah Press]] has published several books denying the [[Armenian genocide]], beginning with [[Guenter Lewy]]'s ''[[The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Suny |first=Ronald Grigor |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oXGYDwAAQBAJ |title="They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide |date=2017 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-17596-6 |pages=375 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hovannisian |first=Richard G. |date=December 1, 2015 |title=Denial of the Armenian Genocide 100 Years Later: The New Practitioners and Their Trade |url=https://utpjournals.press/doi/10.3138/gsi.9.2.04 |journal=Genocide Studies International |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=228–247 |doi=10.3138/gsi.9.2.04 |s2cid=155132689 |issn=2291-1847}}</ref> The book's publication by the University of Utah Press was arranged by Yavuz himself.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mamigonian |first=Marc A. |date=March 1, 2015 |title=Academic Denial of the Armenian Genocide in American Scholarship: Denialism as Manufactured Controversy |url=https://utpjournals.press/doi/10.3138/gsi.9.1.04 |journal=Genocide Studies International |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=61–82 |doi=10.3138/gsi.9.1.04 |s2cid=154623321 |issn=2291-1847}}</ref>

Professor [[Keith David Watenpaugh]] charges the program with "promoting the falsification of history through its grants and political advocacy... the University of Utah has provided an institutional home to genocide denial."<ref>{{cite news |date=June 7, 2013 |title=The Case Against Legitimizing Genocide Deniers: Scholars Speak Up |work=The Armenian Weekly |url=https://armenianweekly.com/2013/06/07/the-case-against-legitimizing-genocide-deniers-scholars-speak-up/ |access-date=December 13, 2020}}</ref> In 2020, regarding "a student complaint and messages of concern from the Armenian community about the content of an article written by and assigned in a class taught by Hakan Yavuz," the university made a statement, according to which: "The United States, the [[Utah|state of Utah]] and the University of Utah (as a state entity), recognize the historical events of 1915 as the Armenian genocide".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Statement regarding student complaint |url=https://attheu.utah.edu/university-statements/statement-regarding-student-complaint/ |access-date=November 12, 2022 |website=University of Utah Communications |language=en-US}}</ref>