The "provocation thesis" states that Armenian militancy deserved widespread reprisal as the response, and the killing was the side effects, but the Ottoman state had no intention to genocide them. It was really the terrorist party Hnchaks that used Armenians as human shields to score PR points.

German foreign policies did not change. From the beginning of the 20th c, they promoted Islamist jihad, insincerely supported the Zionists, encouraged the Armenian cleansing of Turks. Morgenthau commented the Turks became Germans in pursuing godless rational massacres as a state policy.

Eliminating babies alive has been an honoured tradition of the left-wing land-back revolution, along with taking hostages and smashing shop windows. As many commented, brutality is unavoidable, stemming from the structural violence of society. Real leftists should back such "looting the looters"!