I did quite a bit of research on this subject years ago, and I’m with Bernard Lewis on this one; it was not a “genocide.”
Not entirely successful perhaps, but Henry Morgenthau, the US Ambassador who resigned due to American inaction, and Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term and was instrumental in the passage of the Genocide Treaty would disagre.
Perhaps you'd like to expand on your conclusion, and enlighten the rest of us.
Then you should share with the thread, since you are the only researcher who believes that the Armenians of Turkey waged a "full-scale insurrection" against their government during World War I.
and I’m with Bernard Lewis on this one; it was not a “genocide.”
Bernard Lewis agrees that 1.5 million Armenians were murdered by their government solely for the crime of being Armenian.
What he says is that the Turkish government did not set out in the beginning to kill all the Armenians in Turkey in the same way that the Nazis set out to kill all Jews in Germany - the results were similar, but the Turks were originally only planning to murder as many Armenians as necessary to compel obedience from the remainder.
In my mind, that is a distinction without a difference: it was a government coordinated slaughter of more than a million people conducted solely on the basis of heritage.