"So called" or not. It is not an easy problem to solve. It makes more angry both sides day by day. And it sows the hostility seeds. Sometimes it is better not to touch the wound. You think only one side is victim. It was a war and many people died from both sides.Only time can heal this wound not a surgeon.

Stumpy, there are a lot of legal ramnifications assosciated with the term genocide. The term was coined after WWII, and the crime was defined after WWII.

Until we make war itself a crime, we have to be very careful with the term "Genocide".

 It is a problem. You can´t expect all of a sudden all Turks to accept such a thing. Most of the Turks think deportation was a self defence because many Armenian gangs were killing innocent Turks with the support of enemies. Because of deportation lots of innocent Armenians also died in the desert. It became such a tragedy nobody wanted. It is unfair only one side to take responsibility for what happened. The best option according to me to look forward and have good relations with Armenia.

That is exactly what I am saying.  Do you think I do not know what you are talking about.  I know what deportation is and what happens.  Families are ripped appart, people die, lives are destroyed.

During the American revolution against the Brittish my French ancestors were hearded onto sailling ships and deported from thier lands.  Men were killed, families ripped appart and more than half of the population killed because they did not want to pledge allegance to the crown of England and because the were Catholics and not Protestants.  That was in 1755.

My native Canadian ancestors, were hearded onto what were called Indian reserves where they dies of hunger and deseases.  This in the mid 1800 early 1900.

That is the diffrence, my people had hundred of years to reconcille with what was done.  And now we look to the future so that we can move forward.  Do you think that the queen appologised for what her ancestors did to mine? And we are not waiting for her appology, my people are moving on and growing stronger with every generation that passes.

This will not happen overnight, only time will heal those type of wounds.

And on an ironic note, one of my French ancestors married a Brittish man so if my French ancestors were still angered by what had happen a hundred years before they would have killed the man instead of accepting him and allowing him to marry into the family.

What was done was done and they moved on.  But again this was acheived over time.

si++ If certains subjects anger you and you do not beleive it happened why do you post them?  You know too well people will comment on it and then you get upset or angry. 

here is a link for the definition of genoside:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide

and here is a link about genocide throughout history, it is not a phenomenon that started during WW1 and 2:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history

It is like the Holocost, some say it happened some say it did not.

• Are you aware of any Turkish sufferings? Both sides suffered losses during the intercommunal warfare, which were worsened by the contagious diseases prevalent at the time and the scarcity of food and medicine.

• Do you know about the role of Armenian church in cultivating and financing terrorism?

• Do you know the roles of imperialist powers of the time to ethnically cleans the Turks, using Armenian nationalists?

• Do you know of Armenian rebellions?

• Are you aware of Armenian atrocities committed under Russian uniforms? They had collaborated with the invading Russian troops and perpetrated acts of violence against the Turkish villages in Southeastern Turkey during the World War I.

• Are you aware of Armenian atrocities committed under French uniforms?

• Did you know that the courts took place (Malta & Istanbul) and the Ottoman officials were found not guilty? English courts worked hard to find a guilty but no one was found