What is it about the Armenian genocide that makes it still relevant?

In a recently published volume about Disputed Memory, Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke analyses the social and political dynamics around the recognition of the massacres committed against Armenians by Ottoman Turks during the First World War as a genocide.

As long as the controversy between Turkey and Armenia exists, other states will have to carefully consider how to officially address the massacres, writes Banke in her chapter "Global Memory and Dialogic Forgetting: The Armenian Case."

What appears to be an intimate conflict between two states about how to interpret their common past, do have implications for other states and affects not only the geopolitics in the Caucasus region, but also Turkey's relations to the EU, as recently illustrated with the resolution adopted by the German parliament.