In the Dec. '05 issue of Commentary magazine there was a review of Gunter Levy's book on the 1914-15 Armenian catastrophe in which some three-quarters of a million were slaughtered.
The opening line in the article is THIS: "The term "genocide", coined in 1944 by the Polish-Jewish emigre lawyer Raphael Lemkin, was meant to describe Hitler's then-on-going campaign to exterminate the Jews of Europe."
IS THAT SETTLED? Having said that, the absurdity of those who choose to deny the holocaust is beyond rational comprehension. Those people probably still believe in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion!! Beyond help!
Where did anyone dispute terminology?
Lemkin certainly considered the Turks actions in Armenia genocide, it provided the direction of this career. He coined the term as a unique replacement for his proposed crime of Acts of Barbarity, an international offense he first proposed in 1933. Ironically the European community was having a problem defining terrorism at the time.