4. Government - As the list above shows, admitting to a genocide is not acceptable to a vast majority of Turks for a variety reasons and sentiments, and would certainly not be a smart political move the Turkish government would make irrespective of who controls it at any given time. Nonetheless, along with philosophical and sentimental and political reasons, there are also numerous technical, real world, realpolitik reasons for Turkey’s resistance to such an admission:

A. Reparations - The sheer number of victims of the genocide would translate to many billions of dollars that would need to be paid out to the victims’ descendants.

B. Property rights - Similarly, claims to the property owned by the uprooted and/or killed Armenians will certainly be made to their rightful ownership of land, property and territory.

C. Negotiations on A and B - Even if we were to assume that Turkey would come out of the negotiations conceding to only a small amount of reparations and property, the negotiation process and the negative impact of the inevitable hearings, legal actions, along with the inevitable propaganda they will be subjected to is simply something a somewhat unstable nation like Turkey can not afford.