Victims of genocide die twice: first in the killing fields and then in the texts of denialists who insist that "nothing happened" or that what happened was something "different". On the eve of two centennial anniversaries in 2015 -- the Gallipoli landings, and the start of the genocide of long-settled Armenians, Assyrians and Hellenes in Ottoman Turkey -- the Turkish denial of events evokes serious political debate here. The Ottoman Empire and, later, the Republic of Turkey, implemented a plan of unprecedented forced demographic change from 1914 to 1924, It sought the physical elimination of the indigenous non-Muslim populations as the only way of securing their territorial, cultural, religious and linguistic integrity. In 1911, one of the governing Committee of Union and Progress, chaired by Talaat Pasha, declared: "The nations that remain from the old times in our empire are akin to foreign and harmful weeds that must be uprooted