Diehard irredentists are boring. It was a different state. The Sultan was a whole different world.
It's not about whether it was a sultan or a kemal mustafa and the Young Turks—it is about the genocide they perpetrated.
And it is the continuing denial of that holocaust—the first in the 20th century. The one that Hitler used as a model for his own: death marches, mass slaughters, concentration camps, slave labor, etc