There is no real scholarly issue or debate, most genocide scholars agree it is a genocide, there is a pretty big consensus. There is one person you could maybe consider a sorry excuse for a genocide scholar who denies the Armenian genocide, Guenter Lewy, but he is a Holocaust survivor and Jewish supremacist who denies the Nazi genocidal intentions against the gypsies, that Native Americans suffered a genocide, he whitewashed American atrocities against Vietnamese. Basically Lewy is a rare type of Holocaust exclusivists who thinks any other type of suffering or genocide competes, so the asshole that he is, denies every genocide that didn't happen to Jews. The Turkish government didn't need to convince him of much to help with their denial of the Armenian genocide. But most genocide scholars and Jews also wash their hands with the likes of Lewy.

The issue is that the Turkish government interferes in history in Turkey by creating official positions that the ultra-nationalist Turkish population and scholars parrot. Turkey tries to do the same abroad especially in the United States by funding chairs of Ottoman and modern Turkish history and having Turkish embassies and scholars try to micro-manage scholars who are willing to be corrupted:

http://www.alternet.org/story/87223/u.s._politicians_and_scholars_are_helping_turkey_cover_up_wwi_armenian_genocide

In 1982, the government of Turkey donated $3 million to create the Institute for Turkish Studies, a nonprofit organization housed at Georgetown University that pushes a pro-Turkey agenda, including denial of the Armenian genocide. Three years later, in 1985, Turkey bought full-page advertisements in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Washington Times to publish a letter questioning the Armenian genocide that was signed by 69 American scholars. All 69 had received funding that year from the Institute for Turkish Studies or another of Turkey's surrogates like the Ankara Chamber of Commerce, a quasi-governmental agency in Turkey's capital city.

The Institute for Turkish Studies has since received sizable donations from American defense contractors that sell arms to Turkey, including General Dynamics and Westinghouse. Turkey continues to provide an annual subsidy to support the institute. In 2006, the most recent year for which tax records are available, the institute awarded $85,000 in grants to scholars. Its chairman is the current Turkish ambassador to the U.S., Nabi Sensoy.

And:

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/07/01/turkey#ixzz2sUd75RrL

• An incident in 2006, only recently being talked about publicly, has some scholars concerned that Turkey and its supporters may be interfering in American scholarship. The chair of the board of the Institute of Turkish Studies, which is based at Georgetown University, resigned at the end of 2006, and he says he was given a choice by Turkish officials of either quitting or seeing the funding for the institute go away.

• Quataert led the institute's board from 2001 until his controversial departure at the end of 2006.

• In an interview, Quataert said that after his review was published, he was told by David C. Cuthell, director of the institute, that people in Turkey were upset about his use of the word genocide and that he should call the Turkish ambassador.

• Based on his experience, Quataert said that it is "a very difficult question" to consider whether the institute at this point has credibility as a source of financing for research and education. "By forcing my resignation, the Turkish government has made very clear that there are bounds beyond which people cannot go," he said.

What ignorants like you attribute to scholarly debate on the issue of whether or there not was an Armenian genocide, is scholars biased by the considerable funding and interference the Turkish government tries to create in American institutions of higher learning. Let us not forget the Heath Lowry affair also:

https://pen.org/nonfiction/professional-ethics-and-denial-armenian-genocide

It has been said that gentlemen do not read other gentlemen’s mail. But suppose that one[genocide scholar Robert Jay Lifton] receives a letter from the Turkish ambassador to the United States rebuking one’s scholarship because one has written about what the ambassador refers to as “the so-called ‘Armenian genocide,’ allegedly perpetrated by the Ottoman Turks during the First World War.” And suppose that, inadvertently, the envelope also contains an internal memorandum written by the executive director of what claims to be a non­political, scholarly institute[Heath Lowry, then executive director of the Institute for Turkish Studies] and that memorandum reveals much about the mentality of those who engage in denial of the Armenian genocide. What then?

tl:dr; A genocide scholar, Robert Jay Lifton published a book [u]The Nazi Doctors, Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide[/u] where he attested there was an Armenian genocide and op-cited alot of the work of the Armenian-American scholar Vahakn Dadrian, since the Armenian genocide is not his field(which is most scholars do outside their primary field, cite other specialists who they deem credible). Nuzhet Kandemir, then Turkish ambassador in Washington sent a letter to Lifton in 1990 objecting to the coverage of the Armenian genocide in his book. Thankfully the idiot Turkrabian ambassador also accidentally also sent Robert Lifton a letter that Heath Lowry(Atatürk Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies and then head of the Institute of Turkish studies) sent to the Kandemir that included the same draft letter that the Turkish ambassador pretended to write and very forthright talk about how to deny the Armenian genocide!