Sylvan wrote:
Technically speaking it wasn't an Armenian genocide, it was a christian genocide. Just Armenia had the largest christian population so they took the brunt of it.
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It depends on whether we're talking about 1915, or 1922. In 1915, the Talaat - Enver Young Turk (Ottoman) government was narrowly focused on wiping out the Armenians, whereas in 1922 the Kemalist Turkish Nationalists broadened the scope of the genocide to include all Christians. My grandfather's experience bears this out. In 1915 his Armenian friends were executed, but he was spared. He wasn't so lucky in 1922.
Also, in 1922 - 23, the "genocide" of the non-Armenian Christians became more of an "ethnic cleansing" since many of them were expelled rather than being killed.
Very recently, a cabinet minister of the Greek government got himself into political hot water for daring to suggest that what happened to the Greeks of Asia Minor was an ethnic cleansing rather than a genocide. He may be right, but this is not a "politically correct" view within Greece.