Isn't the Turkish argument basically that it wasn't a genocide because they were never interested in totally eliminating the Armenian people, just the ones who lived in Turkey?
No the Turkish view is it didn't happen/it happened, but it was the Kurds who did it/It happened, but it was self defence/The Armenians really asked for it/the Turks was the real victims.
The view you present, are the view of Turkish/Ottoman apoligists in the West, because they know that the above talking point would really not play well in the West. The truth are that Turkey and the Turks see themselves as historical victims of all those ungrateful subject people, who rebelled against the benevolent Ottoman Empire (who spread the light of civilisation to the barabarians) because they was subhuman scum, and yes of course there's people in Turkey who disagree with this view, but Turkey are truly a post imperial state with a victim complex, and let be honest it was not like their settlers and collabators in their former empire was treated well after the Ottoman Empire lost control over their non-Anatolian possessions, and many Turks are descendent of expelled people from the Balkans, Ukraine and southern Russia.
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