[JoeFromSidney]

I've never been able to understand why the Turks themselves don't say, "Yes, the Ottomans committed genocide, but they were corrupt and evil. Kemal Ataturk got rid of them and cleaned things up." They could blame the "previous administration," and claim they had made a clean start.

[Verginius Rufus]

Kemal Ataturk did some very good things for Turkey, but I think he is also blamed for some post-WWI massacres (of Greeks at least--I'm not sure if there were any Armenians left by then in the areas under Turkish control).

Victor Davis Hanson, in his interview on C-SPAN in early March, talked about how the Armenians in the Central Valley of California were not permitted to use the public swimming pools in the 1920s.