It is certain that some people from both sides were died. but if we consider the condiions of the time, the poorness of the Empire, the Wars between Ottoman Empire and lots of other countries, the lack of army, the lack of food, etc... we can conclude that it's inevitable. there were nearly 1.6 million Armenians at that time in the Ottoman Land,(it is clear from the documents in Ottoman archives). and the number of deaths is 600.000 Armenian(but this number includes all deaths; deaths from health problems, deaths because of old age, deaths because of war, etc...) I can't say that Turkey or Ottoman's did not kill anybody. yes they did. but as we all know genocide has some definite characterictics. they are mentioned in the United Nations Aggrement. I far as I remember it must be the 21st item.
First of all did they killed Armenians just because of they were Armenians? no.
did they establish some certain places for killing them as Hitler did? no. (And also there is one more point, is it too simple to kill millions of people in such a short time? one must establish an oven or something else to kill these huge number of people, but there is none)
Is there any mass grave of them? no. but in Erzurum, in Agri, in different cities in the Eastern Turkey they still find new mass graves of Turkish people.
I wanna give an example about the explanation of genocide: imagine that there were two villages; one is A, the other is B. people in A and B are different in terms of what you want religion, race, colour, etc...
1-One day people in B attack on A and killed nearly all the people there and steal something.
2- One day people in B attack on A and steal nearly all the things and killed some of them.
One of the examples here is a genocide. the first one of course. because the aim is to kill them because of some reasons(their race, colour, religion,etc.) other is not, because the aim is robbery or something else but not to kill them.
And also they had great positions in Ottoman government. they could even become a Pasha, which wasone of the biggest ranks at that time.
And again in the archives which the Turkish government opened to those who claim this genocide, we can see that Ottoman Empire made some bills to protect the Armenians, for example; their goods they left behind must have been protected and after the war when they came back, those goods must have been given back... Or between the wars Empire sent them army forces just for the sake of protecting them from Kurdish, Arabic and other attacks, because they were allowed to take their money and goods with them.
How can one say that "Oh, there was an Armenian Genocide made by Turks(Ottomans)"?
There is not any GENOCIDE, but say ok there is, how they can want land, money ,etc.. from Turkish Government? As written in U.N. Aggrement, Genocide is the crime of a person, not of the governments or states.