There was an FR post only a few hours ago that described the Turkish caliphate pre-1918 and their actions against Armenians and Yazidis and Yazidis against Christian Armenians.
Yes a google search (without the quotes) for the past week
"site:www.freerepublic.com turkey Armenians Yazidis"
found a FR thread referring to the Ottoman Empire of 100 years ago.
In no way do I intend to provoke an Armenian genocide debate at this time.
I lived and worked in Turkey (in Ankara as a civilian) for a time and I have great respect for the Turks. The Ottoman Empire is no more. Really.
Tens of millions of Turks love their secular constitutional Republic of Turkey and oppose efforts to make Turkey into an Islamist, Sharia Law whatever. When I lived in Turkey it was way before Erdogan and the AK Party.