>Today a turk writer "Orhan Pamuk" won Nobel literary prize and France approved a law about if anyone say "there wasn't an armenian genocide in Turkey" it needs prison sentence.
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>A headline from a turk website "Prize to who says we killed, prison to who says we don't" .
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>footnote: Orhan Pamuk had said "there was an armenian genocide in Turkey"

I see there are several quests:

1 The number of Armenians, and Turks, that died in that period.
2 The causes of their death.
3 Whether or not the deaths were the purpose of officials and to what part.
4 Whether or not it were the highest officials.

As I understand, the official Turkish POV is that the highest officials were not involved. It was not some kind of Hitler-leader who ordered the killings. And therefore the official POV is that it should not be called genocide.

I can imagine. Suppose I killed someone only by accident and was consistently and publicly called a murderer, I'd protest heavilly.

On the other hand, suppose I indeed killed someone on purpose, I'd still try to let it look like an accident and protest when being called a murderer.

Proof would be given in court. I think that it's best for us all if the Turkish goverment cooperates, by opening archives for independent research, perhaps a nice job for a UN-committee.

And the French? Well, they are doing crazy in this case. A similar inappropriate reaction had some Dutch political parties who removed some Turkish candidates from the list because they did not want to use the word genocide.