Here is a very wonderful response you can use to reply to Armenian-Genocide supporters or people of neutral position that do not understand the complex history of Turkish-Armenian relations. They simply Google the internet and understand a misconception, and take it as a fact since so many sources say the same thing.
Quick question, why is it that everyone is so ready to accept that anything that hints at genocide simply must be a genocide? Are you saying that Israel should also accept a Palestinian Genocide? Are you saying that Americans should accept that they are perpetrators of a Native Indian Genocide? Are you saying that France should accept that it created the Algiers Genocide? Are you saying that Britain should accept that they committed multiple genocides all over the world?
Why is it that when it's a Muslim nation, we are ready to criticize and blame, but when it's a Christian nation, we call it "War", "conflict", or "just imperialism"?
When you are all ready to immediately say "Yes there was an Armenian Genocide" it's probably because you did a quick 10 minute google search and found some information on Wikipedia, and you assume that since a lot of websites tell you the Armenian Genocide is real, then it must be.
You forget that Wikipedia is influenced by the majority of writers of each article, so when there is a lot of Armenian nationalists with excellent grammar and persuasive skills writing the article for the Armenian Genocide, and only one Turk with crappy grammar trying to debate it, of course the administrators side with the Armenians.
You forget that almost ALL people use to think the Earth was flat. Research proved otherwise, and recent books by genocide scholars and WESTERN historians are proving the Armenian Genocide to be nothing but war-time propaganda and hatred against the Ottoman Government who was siding with the Central Powers. It's time we stopped World War I propaganda from continuing in our lives.
It's time we stop the Armenian community from teaching their children to continue to hate the Turks. It's time we stop this cycle of hate, blaming, and revenge.
Making a resolution like H.R. 106 about the Genocide does not change anything except help the Armenian politicians establish grounds to pressure Turkey for reparations and land that they think belongs to Armenia.
We seem to be talking about a 93 year old event, when there are genocides going on RIGHT NOW, such as the Darfur Genocide, and we are still "Thinking" whether we should call it genocide.
For once in your life, stop accepting faith blindly, in this case the faith is the belief in the Armenian Genocide. Read a history book by Western scholars and know that the Armenian Genocide is simply a blanket word to simplify the complex 40 year history of Armenian-Turkish relations and put all the blame on the Ottomans.
The same kind of blame that America put on the Japanese-Americans for "Spying" in World War II and putting them in camps, yet we seem to be all high and mighty when it comes to blaming others.
As Americans you should remember that we did something worse than genocide, we created slavery against a race for centuries.
Even Jewish American historians like Dr. Bernard Lewis condemn the Armenian propagandists who are calling the 1915 events the Armenian Genocide, when it is clear that the Ottomans never ordered or encouraged the killing of Armenians. The Armenians that died, died as a result of local ethnic conflicts, rebellions, hunger and disease that was affecting even Turkish soldiers!
Read your history, and keep an open-mind, history is not definite, before you condemn a whole nation and people for genocide, think about how their ancestors felt when they were being murdered by Armenian Rebels led by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation established in 1890, way before 1915!
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