Armenian killings - mutual massacres or genocide?

Would you apply the same standards to the pictures on the ANI website? 

How do you know they are taken by Turks?

There was no Turkey at the time, there was the Ottoman Empire, of which the lands of modern Turkey were then a part.

Not only did the Turks have nothing to do with the decision taken by the Ottoman leadership to join the war, but in fact the Turkish resistance lead by Ataturk fought against that same Ottoman leadership and put an end to its centuries long rein by the proclamation of the Republic.

True, I also believe the state should leave the study of history to the historians, but when the Armenian state and Armenian lobbies abroad exert pressure on parliamentaries to vote over what occurred in history, you cannot really expect the Turkish state to remain indifferent to what the majority of its citizens view as a gross injustice against them.

The images are graphic and quite shocking so they certainly can be used for propaganda purposes.

Unless you claim that these images are fabrications, that they do not represent people killed by the armenians, that the persons on these images are not Turkish, I do not see how these images are false.

What kind of image is not a propaganda image in your opinion?

Concerning Armin Wegner's work, you are right.  He was a true humanist and he has done a great service to humanity by revealing what the Armenians have experienced. If it was not for his picture we would have very few images of the suffering of the Armenians. Here is a biography of him:

http://www1.yadvashem.org/righteous/bycountry/germany/wegner _armin_t.html

Massacres of genoicidal proportions against Armenians in the territories that were controlled by the Turks have occurred there is no doubt, and Armin Wegner was a witness of them, but this does not disprove the fact that equally horrific massacres have occurred in the terrritories under the control of the Russian.

Amin Wegner took his images when he was on a leave between July and August 1915.  But what Amin Wegner did not witness were the horrendous massacres against muslims that had occurred months earlier in early May in Van during the Armenian revolt and its subsequent occupation by the Russians on 17th May. He could not have possibly witnessed these autrocities because they took part in territories that were under enemy occupation and Wegner was a German officer allied to the Ottoman Empire. All he saw was vengeful Turks comit unjustified reprisals against innocent Armenian civilians.    

What do you mean it is not even a reference. The book can even be ordered here:

http://www.thomashaker.de/search.php4?term=the%20armenian%20 aspirations%20and%20revolutionary%20movements&PHPSESSID= a6522cbae5fcd079fcbab2bd90ba736a

Yes, there was, and as a result of it Van lost 62% of its muslim population.

What do you mean? There are pictures.

Well, by distorting history, completely ignoring the Muslim casualties and making it appear as if only  Armenians were the victims of Genocide, you are not helping this process of coming into terms with history, are you? It is not that Turks must come to terms with their own past, but both Turks and Armenians must come into terms with their mutual past.

Are you claiming that Armenians genocided Turks?
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I can claim this. I can provide enough materials and links with information about turk massacre in Anatolia and Caucauses.

OMG.

Qajar, please define genocide before you provide your "evidence".

I dont see what is so funny