‘Genocide’ Seems To Be The Hardest Word or Turkey Dammit!

And after that a 'sorry' would be nice, the BBC are very diplomatic and only describe the killing of 1.5 million, yes 1,500,000 people by Turkey as a genocide when you get well down the page. This is really instructive, if a large enough power denies something consistently then even objective outside sources begin to bend to their will and pussy foot around the subject. Thus writers bury the lede; here is the opening of the BBC report:-

A senior Armenian delegation is in eastern Turkey for the reopening of a 1,100-year-old Armenian church restored by the Turkish government.
The move is being seen as a positive gesture by Ankara to help overcome the animosity following the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915.-

You have to go to the bottom of the page for this:-

Armenians say 1.5 million of their people were killed in a genocide by Ottoman Turks during World War I, either through systematic massacres or through starvation.
More than a dozen countries, various international bodies and many Western historians agree that it was genocide.
Turkey says there was no genocide. It acknowledges that many Armenians died, but says the figure was below one million.-

All very diplomatic and 'balanced' but this is the myth of balance. If I kick you in the face in front of witnesses then the report is simply- I kicked you in the face- but what happens if I am powerful? The report becomes- while the reader claims to have been kicked in the face, Rick denies this and says while he acknowledges some foot /face intersection may have occurred it was purely accidental as can be expected in everyday life. -

Oh and if I'm really up to speed I get to add- the reader was a terror suspect- I only need to use that if I blow your fucking brains all over a tube carriage by emptying several 9mm rounds at point blank range while my friend holds you down (Hello the Met). Balance is not giving all sides equal airing there must be fact checking and challenging obvious falsehoods, it is not allowing a liar to lie to create plausible doubt (Hello Exxon). While establishing objective truth is impossible, if both the victims and those who study the incident agree it is genocide, then it is motherfucking genocide and that is what you headline the story with - Turkey makes moves to rebuild relations after Genocide- perhaps.

Turkey though is very active in covering up this genocide. In the US they bribed the former Republican speaker of the House Dennis Hastert to block a motion that would have recognised the Armenian genocide. They paid him $500,000 (that's 33 cents a life, good value for Turkey!) in $200 dollar amounts so it didn’t have to be itemised and therefore traced in public filings.

The BBC has an impossible job and will never please everyone, but c’mon, call it what it is and tell Turkey to face the facts or fuck off.