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The argument comes down to this: Turks bad. Armenians and everyone else good. All Turkish sources diabolical propaganda. All Armenian and other sources absolute gospel truth.

I doubt there are very many innocent parties in such a backward region. These people reap what they've sown for many centuries and don't get a lot of sympathy from me. On any side.

Nevertheless, I do feel obligated to challenge holocaust denials here at FR when the entire civilized world has long since concluded that the Armenian holocaust is as real as the Serbian or Jewish holocausts and was of the same nature. I would hate to think that gullible readers here at FR would somehow conclude that there is any controversy on the subject when only Turkish sources dispute the massacre they perpetrated against the Armenians. And I wouldn't let a denier of the Jewish holocaust slip propaganda on to FR either.

I'd suggest that you examine the works on the Nazi period by a few of the revisionist German historians. You'll see a very familiar pattern to what our Turkish friends are presenting here regarding the Armenians. You see, our country has always believed the credible reporting on the Armenian holocaust. But we didn't let it affect our relations with our ally Turkey. But now they've shown us exactly what that was worth to them. Not to mention our shielding them on the Cyprus issue diplomatically, entry into NATO, EU entry, etc.

Mort, there are no innocents among nations except maybe for certain periods of time among the isolated Pacific Islanders. But the hands in the Middle East are particularly bloody throughout the modern history. And, as the overwhelming majority of FReepers know, there's a specific reason for that.