Those people who suffered genocide have the right to demand to the world that they suffered it & have it recognized by the world that it happened to them, it doesn't matter when it happened. Mass murder, wide scale slaughter, horrid atrocities are not genocide. No nation wants to utter the word "genocide". Genocide, once declared takes on a whole world of actions & responsibilities. Shout anything you like & the world doesn't need to or have to listen, shout genocide & all have to stand & hear & many are commited to act.
Tell a Jew that genocide didn't happen, there are even laws pretaining to this, it's the same when you tell an Armenian that it was very bad, it was slaughter, murder, IT WASN'T, it was GENOCIDE & they have earned the right to shout it from the tops of mountains so that all can look at them & acknowledge that they suffered it.
It doesn't matter what Turkey is today or who they are as a people or who's side of what war they are backing. They need to recognize that it occured, they need to give that valadation to the people whose families & ancesters suffered it at their hands, it it a large part of the Armenian history now, it's part of their culture & it's become a part of their DNA, it is now an unwanted piece of what they are.
We all saw what happened in Dufar & Rewanda when all where to slow to say the word genocide, 100 yrs later it won't make a difference to others but they still need to be able to let the world know that they suffered it even if the world won't admit that it happened on their watch & they watched while it happened, the world 100 yrs from now will need to know it happened if they'll want to know who they are & their history as well as the history of those that commited it & of the history of those that watched it happen & did nothing to stop it, & of course the history of those that did fight to stop it.
It's time that we as a nation stood on the side of the victums that have been asking for this recognition since it's happening, espically when we were guilty of the same crime, it is our duty as a past partner in genocide that we honor it's victums where ever they are, that is required of us because of the role we played in our past as it should be with any nation that's has a past tainted by a history of commiting genocide, in part's it a payment we owe to the world for commiting such an act.

Barry