Armenian genocide? What genocide? Armenians used to be most loyal nation in ottomans. But during wars in 1900s, they killed many Turks in the eastern Türkiye and burned many villages. That is why ottomans decided to send them to other areas in Ottoman lands. They died during forced deportations. They should be thankful to ottoman empire officials,else Turks in near Armenians villages would kill all of them since they killed many Turks while Turkish men fight on the battle field against enemies
In May 1915, Talat stated: "We have been blamed for not making a distinction between guilty and innocent Armenians. [To do so] was impossible. Because of the nature of things, one who was still innocent today could be guilty tomorrow. The concern for the safety of Turkey simply had to silence all other concerns. Our actions were determined by national and historical necessity."
Talat told German ambassador Johann Von Bernstoff"What on earth do you want? The question is settled, there are no more Armenians."
"It is no use for you to argue . . . we have already disposed of three quarters of the Armenians; there are none at all left in Bitlis, Van, and Erzeroum. The hatred between the Turks and the Armenians is now so intense that we have got to finish with them. If we don't, they will plan their revenge.
On 3 August 1915, Talat met with US ambassador Morgenthau and told him "that our Armenian policy is absolutely fixed and that nothing can change it. We will not have the Armenians anywhere in Anatolia. They can live in the desert but nowhere else."
Talat was the Turkish Minister of Interior btw.
Here's another-
"Either the Armenians were to eliminate the Turks, or the Turks were to eliminate the Armenians. I did not hesitate when I was confronted with this dilemma. My Turkishness prevailed over my profession. I figured, instead of wiping us out, we will wipe them out....On the question how I, as a doctor, could have murdered, I can answer as follows: the Armenians had become hazardous microbes in the body of this country. Well, isn't it a doctor's duty to kill microbes?"-
Mehmed Rashid, Governor of Diyarbekir Vilayet
More?
"Ottoman history has never opened its pages, even during the time of the Middle Ages, onto such determined murder and large scale cruelty."
"If you want to bloody the Armenian question politically, then you scatter the people in the Armenian provinces, but scatter them in a humane manner. Hang the traitors, even if there are thousands of them. Who would entertain hiding Russians [and] the supporters of Russians? But stop right there. You dared to annihilate the existence of an entire nation, not [only] their political existence. You are both iniquitous and incapable. What kind of conscience must you have to [be able to] accept the drowning, in the mountains and next to lakes, of those women, children and the elderly who were taken to the countryside!"
"With these acts we have [ruined] everything. We put an irremovable stain on the current administration."-
Diary entry for 29 August–24 September 1915 of Mehmed Cavid Bey, CUP finance minister.
Here's some more-
"These leftovers from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the lives of millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse from their homes and massacred, have been restive under Republican rule. They have hitherto lived on plunder, robbery and bribery, and become inimical to any idea or suggestion to enlist in useful labor and earn their living by the honest sweat of their brow."
"The World War I massacres against the Armenians (Ermenilere karşı katliam) [was] a shameful act (fazahat)."
Ottoman naval officer and statesman Rauf Orbay mentioned in his memoirs during a discussion with James Harbord: "Kemal used the 800,000 figure to describe the number of Armenian victims. He, in fact, 'disapproved of the Armenian massacres.' (Ermeni katlini o da takbih ediyordu)."-
The big man himself, Kemal Ataturk.
Some more just to drive the point home-
"We slaughtered the innocent Armenian population ... We tried to extinguish the Armenians through methods that belong to the medieval times".-
Turkish Nationalist and novelist Halide Edib.
These are all Turks who saw the genocide.
Who knows, maybe even Ataturk was lying and you are the only truthful Turk around. Are you calling Kemal Ataturk a liar, Yasin?