[3][4] Set up due to international pressures for genocide recognition in May 2001, the agency was jointly chaired by the Foreign Minister of Turkey and the secretary general of the National Security Council.
The agency's goal was to centralize Turkish efforts to promote Armenian genocide denial in public opinion both in Turkey and internationally.
[1] Beginning in 2002 with Abdullah Gül, the prime minister of Turkey was the ex officio head of the organization.
[5] Marc Mamigonian comments, "Turkey is thus perhaps the only state with an official or semiofficial entity devoted exclusively to events that it maintains did not occur.
[5] ASİMKK disappeared after the 2017 Turkish constitutional referendum and consequent reconfiguration of Turkey as a presidential system.