As a Turk I am ashamed of the few Turks here denying the Genocide
I am not so much ashamed of Armenian Genocide. Many Genocides have occurred, but our coutnry, Turkey, seems to be the one country with a cowardly ultra nationalist class that has soiled and desecrated our country's name by its active denial of the Genocide of the Armenians.
Le me apologize for all Turks for the handful of people where who have been infected by this denial. They are identical to the deniers of the Jewish Holocaust.
I do have good news. MORE and MORE Turks now know and understand the Ottoman genocide of our Armenian subjects. It simply cannot be openly discussed in Turkey due to laws in place.
In fact a conference last year with academics from around the world, organized by a University, was threatened and closed by the government with its organizers threaten with arrest for using the term!
We have no freedom of press or academic freedom. It is if Nazi Germany had not been defeated and its propaganda about the Holcoaust was still being promulgated.
Our country is HONORABLE with honorable people -- do not let Holocaust and Genocide denial by a vocal ultra nationalist minority who is coming here make yo think all or most Turks are deniers! It isn't even that minorities' fault -- they are just ignorant. Our history teachers can only teach from govenrment approved texts which are not allowed to mention the Genocide.