If turkey did commit genocide then why wait till turkey is no longer your friend to say it was genocide? its clearly a political game, anyway if genocide did happen its up to the historian to say so.
If i was Turkey leaders i would come out and say the holocaust was fake to counter this move.
First of all, I need to say that what happened in 1915 was not a genocide. There were mutual massacres but these incidents were between local muslims and local armenians. The Ottoman government, İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti (Committee of Union and Progress), never passed a law to order army to massacre armenians. The government passed a law, which is known as The Tehcir Kanunu (Deportation Law, officialy Dispatchment and Settlement Law), to order the army to move local armenians, who were provoked by Russians to kill local muslims, other parts of Ottoman Empire safely. Because of the inadequacies of the war many armenians died and because of the reactions of the local Kurds and Turks many armenians were killed while the deportation. According to records, 1673 statesmen and commanders who didn't pay enoguh attention to deport armenians safely were judged and 12 of them exeuted while World Waw I still went on. Here is what Bernard Lewis, an authority on middle east history, said about so-called armenian genocide:
"There is no evidence of a decision to massacre. On the contrary, there is considerable evidence of attempts to prevent it, which were not very successful. Yes there were tremendous massacres, the numbers are very uncertain but a million may well be likely,[33] ...[and] the issue is not whether the massacres happened or not, but rather if these massacres were as a result of a deliberate preconceived decision of the Turkish government... there is no evidence for such a decision."
Secondly, we do not deny the holocaust in Turkey. Although some people claim that the numbers are exaggerated, we believe the holocaust was real because it has been proved by historians with gas chambers, mass graves, etc.. However, none of these proofs has been showed by historians about so-called armenian genocide. Some of the historians just claim that it was a genocide but they seem to ignore the "innocent untill proven guilty" principle.
Turkey will never pass a bill that denies the holocaust because of two reasons. First, it is something we really belive that happened and second, we can't pass a bill in our parliament about history while we defend the argument "History must be left to historians and parliaments shouldn't decide about history"
