Of course the Armenians brought about their own near annilihation at the hands of the turks; we all know that the Armenian military juggernaut had therir way with the weak as a kitten turkish caliphate and left as you said, only a few men alive.
And of course we all know that Attaturk was the "top statesman of the millenium", as you say. I am furious whenever I hear anyone praise Churchill or FDR or Gandhi...if only we could educate the rest of the world...