Even Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, under increasing EU pressure as accession negotiations are due to begin this October, has agreed to an impartial study by academic historians, although he has reiterated his belief that the genocide never occurred. In France, the historical occurrence of the Armenian genocide is enshrined in law, and denial of its occurrence is regarded in the same way as Holocaust denial.
事实上，在土耳其内，更大范围的变化蓄势待发。考虑到加入欧盟的要求，媒体和政府最终决定开启有关亚美尼亚的敏感话题的辩论。今年十月即将举行土耳其入盟谈判，在欧盟的重重压力下，就连总理雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安（Recep Tayyip Erdogan）也同意由专业的历史学家对此进行公正的研究，尽管他本人再三重申他认为从来没有发生过种族屠杀。在法国，亚美尼亚屠杀被神圣地写进了法律，否认它的发生就像否认纳粹的种族大屠杀曾经发生过一样。