I wish this issue could be resolved. From what I have seen and heard, Armenians will not bear any responsibility for the massacares. The fact they doned French and Russian uniforms and picked up weapons against their neighbors doesn´t factor into debate any Armenian (I have met) will acknowledge in a debate.
A Turkish court case against Armenians and Sarkozy
When I first heard I thought it was a joke, but it is not. A Turkish citizen from the city of Gaziantep is suing French President Nicolas Sarkozy and four Turkish-based Armenian foundations at the Gaziantep Court of First Instance and is demanding 50,000 euros in compensation for the pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages he and his family suffered as a result of the French invasion of Maraş and Urfa and the massacres they carried out in collaboration with local Armenians.
What is more amazing than this is the fact that the Gaziantep court has recognized Ahmet Karadağ as a plaintiff in this case and sent the motion to all five defendants, including Sarkozy. Here are the “substantial” arguments put forward by the plaintiff in this court case:
“Akıncı village, formerly known as Seve, where the grandfather of the complainant, the father of his grandfather and other relatives used to live, was destroyed by French troops during the French occupation. Pregnant women were killed. Eighty-five people, including Mustafa Efendi, the father of his grandfather, were murdered in this village alone. Armenian gangs aided the French troops. During this period, three-and-a-half kilograms of gold belonging to Mustafa Efendi was seized by the French troops and Armenian gangs. In addition, hundreds of cattle and livestock were confiscated. Their valuables were robbed by the French troops. Due to these unjust aggressions and genocide, my client, Ahmet Karadağ, and other family members suffered extensively and have led a miserable life in the aftermath; as a result, they remained in poverty for years (Exhibit 1 witnesses).
Subsequent careful review by the court of the exhibits and evidence affixed and those others that I will present, as well as the well-known historical documents and archives at the Turkish Historical Association (Exhibit 2), and books of scholarly value (Exhibit 3) and documents, it will become evident that the complainant and his relatives suffered from the brutal attacks by the French army and their Armenian accomplices in Antep, Maraş and Urfa, where more than 70,000 Turks were murdered, thousands of others were tortured or wounded and their properties plundered. As a result of this inhumane practice of France out of its colonialist and expansionist tendencies, which appears to be a third party that shares no border with Turkey, my client and his family suffered and were hurt.
For these reasons, while the magnitude of the loss and disruption caused by these practices is huge and almost irreparable, the complainant asks 45,000 euros in material compensation and 5,000 euros in moral compensation as a symbolic gesture, as spelled out in the French genocide denial bill.
Source: here
)...ect. However, I prefer to keep it simple and stick to the pralines! 