[6] She did not select these works but instead "systematically read all books printed in Turkey in Turkish after the Latin script reform of 1928 that contained people’s recollections of what went on around them from the year 1789 to 2009".

[7] She mainly investigates the ways in which Ottoman and Turkish elites understood, rationalized, justified, and denied "their own culture of anti-Armenian violence through two centuries".

[9] Jo Laycock states that "this highly detailed account is by no means an easy introduction"; Göçek presumes knowledge of the Armenian genocide itself as well as willingness to engage with a variety of approaches to the subject matter.

[9] Sossie Kasbarian and Kerem Öktem called the book "the finest scholarship" and "a ground-breaking contribution to our knowledge about the Genocide, its denial by the Muslim–Turkish elites and its foundational role for the Turkish nation-state".

[8] Vicken Cheterian states that Denial of Violence is "a unique book, which will open new perspectives in the study of the dark sides of nationalist modernization".

[10] Eldad Ben-Aharon states that the book is an "excellent monograph that offers, for the most part, nuanced interpretations of empirical research to fill a substantial gap in scholarship on this topic".