[3] In the Republic of Turkey, he joined the Republican People's Party and served as a backbench MP for Amasya for decades.
[1] According to Turkish historian Doğan Gürpınar, the book was "a new and comprehensive synthesis" of older Unionist claims and apologetics;[5] it also built on Uras' personal experiences.
[3] Gürpınar sees the book as "the intermediary connecting two historical eras and two different modes of denialism", the latter being that which developed after 1973.
[5] The book has been described as "the ur-text of Turkish denialist 'scholarship'",[2] since it established many of the tropes and narratives that would be used in later works that denied the genocide.
This "provocation thesis" aims to justify the genocide by asserting that Armenians provoked their own persecution.