Tell that to the Armenian Christians butchered by the Ottoman empire, i.e., by the Turks.
In 2005, the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) affirmed that scholarly evidence revealed the "Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire began a systematic genocide of its Armenian citizens – an unarmed Christian minority population. More than a million Armenians were exterminated through direct killing, starvation, torture, and forced death marches". The IAGS also condemned Turkish attempts to deny the factual and moral reality of the Armenian Genocide. In 2007, the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity produced a letter signed by 53 Nobel Laureates re-affirming the Genocide Scholars' conclusion that the 1915 killings of Armenians constituted genocide. -- Wiki
I should have qualified that I was referring to the Modern Turkey after Mustafa Kemal, AKA, Ataturk became the leader.