Editing Armenian genocide (section)

=== Archives and historiography ===
{{see also|Kemalist historiography}}
The genocide is extensively documented in the archives of Germany, Austria, the United States, Russia, France, and the United Kingdom,{{sfn|Dadrian|Akçam|2011|p=4}} as well as the [[Ottoman archives]], despite [[Armenian genocide denial#Destruction and concealment of evidence|systematic purges of incriminating documents by Turkey]].{{sfn|Akçam|2012|pp=xxii–xxiii, 25–26}} There are also thousands of [[Witnesses and testimonies of the Armenian genocide|eyewitness accounts]] from Western missionaries and Armenian survivors.{{sfn|Bloxham|Göçek|2008|p=345}}{{sfn|Chorbajian|2016|p=168}}{{sfn|Akçam|2018|p=11}} Polish-Jewish lawyer [[Raphael Lemkin]], who coined the term ''[[genocide]]'' in 1944, became interested in war crimes after reading about the 1921 trial of Soghomon Tehlirian for the assassination of Talaat Pasha. Lemkin recognized the fate of the Armenians as one of the most significant genocides in the twentieth century.{{sfn|de Waal|2015|pp=132–133}}{{sfn|Ihrig|2016|pp=9, 370–371}} Almost all historians and scholars outside Turkey, and an increasing number of Turkish scholars, recognize the destruction of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide.{{sfn|Göçek|2015|p=1}}{{sfn|Suny|2015|pp=374–375}}