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Rarely in the annals of recent journalism has such an intellectually dishonest and historically bogus article appeared as Melik Kaylan's thinly veiled invective against Armenians, ["Whose Genocide?"] ("Taki's Top Drawer," 12/27).

Kaylan announces his loathsome views in a rebuttal of sorts to Charles Glass' article on the Armenian genocide that ran two weeks earlier in the pages of "Top Drawer." Kaylan first admits the reality of the Armenian massacres, which he describes as so gruesome that he has trouble reading about them, yet he then spends the better of 1000 words telling readers why commemoration of the Armenian genocide is unimportant and historically biased.

Perhaps the most remarkable part of Kaylan's denialist gestalt is that he seems to want to portray himself as part of a misunderstood, oppressed group, one that is unjustly attacked and perpetually misunderstood: the Turks.

Yes, the Turks.