Originally Posted by
Asturias56
It'll come round again in 5 years - these things always do - it suits too many people to let it lie.
If the Americans/Turks/Armenians can get worked up 110 years after events this one still has years to run.
Unlike Turkey, nobody has ever claimed the NI "troubles" simply did not happen, or that the 3,500 lives lost during that period were largely "self-inflicted".
The Armenians and many other nations are "worked up" that the Ottoman Empire slaughtered over 1 million civilians and have continued to deny that fact for over 100 years. Not only do they deny it, but they blame the Armenians for their own demise, all because the Turkish State was founded on the displacement and slaughter of these people during WW1. To accept the truth would lay bare the lie of how the Turkish state was formed, so it's not going to happen. But denying something doesn't stop it being an unpalatable fact of life.
Not quite apples and apples here.