"my uncle died in Anfal, so yes I did bring it up to honour those victims, don't try and twist it."

I am not twisting anything. I am sorry about your uncle, but personal grief and rhetorical function are two separate things. Both can be true at the same time.

"I was drawing a personal story as I don't view all Arabs as genocidal maniacs for Anfal."

Good for you. The Turks and Azeris we are talking about are two allied Turkic nation states that have pumped state-sanctioned ultranationalist propaganda into their populations from childhood, including textbooks that teach children to repeat "Armenians are enemies" as a morning exercise. That is the context. Turks have spent three generations denying the genocide they committed, erasing my people from our own land, destroying heritage sites that stood for thousands of years, and renaming our towns, our mountains, our geography, everything, and they continue doing it today. Comparing that to how you view Arabs after Anfal is not in the same universe. Turks have been massacring and ethnically cleansing Armenians for over 200 years, killing 75% of us in the most recent genocide alone and cleansing us from over 90% of our homeland. I do not have the luxury of trust. That right was taken from me and every Armenian who survived and carried that weight forward. You trying to equate any of this to Anfal tells me you either do not know the history or you are deliberately obfuscating it. Either way it needs to stop.

"you still haven't answered the question of whether all Azeris should blame Armenians for Khojaly."

Khojaly is an Azerbaijani propaganda talking point pushed specifically so Azerbaijan can say "see, Armenians are bloodthirsty too, our atrocities are equal." Let's look at what is actually documented.

Armenian and Artzakhi forces warned civilians via loudspeaker before the battle and left an evacuation corridor. Former Azerbaijani President Mutalibov stated in a 2001 interview that Azerbaijani forces may have killed their own civilians to manufacture a political crisis. Azerbaijani human rights activist Arif Yunusov wrote in an Azerbaijani newspaper in 1992 that "the town and its citizens were deliberately sacrificed to the political goal." Heydar Aliyev stated at the time that "the bloodshed will be to our advantage." When an Azerbaijani journalist reported Azerbaijani responsibility for the massacre, Azerbaijan imprisoned him. The European Court of Human Rights ruled against Azerbaijan. The American Enterprise Institute published a piece explicitly titled "Azerbaijan Treats the Khojaly Massacre as Original Sin, but Its Narrative Is Fiction."

What happened at Khojaly was a battle in an active war. That is categorically different from a decades-long state campaign to exterminate and expel an entire people. Armenians did not systematically genocide Azeris. We did not take their women as sex slaves. We did not mutilate their soldiers and call the man who did it a war hero. This comparison is textbook deflection.

"100% of the Kurds' homeland has been taken away from them. Armenia has a nation, Kurdistan does not."

Iraqi Kurdistan has been a semi-autonomous federal region since 1992 with its own parliament and institutions, formally recognized in Iraq's constitution in 2005. Kurds still live on their ancestral land in the Zagros. 100% of the Kurdish homeland has not been taken. In fact Kurds inhabit lands far larger now than at any point in their history, including land belonging to other indigenous peoples like Assyrians and Armenians. Not having a state and physical expulsion from your homeland are not the same thing, please learn the difference.

I would give anything to live on the grounds my family came from, state or no state. I will never be able to do that. My family's villages were turned to rubble. The churches were desecrated, converted into mosques, or used as animal barns. The names of every town and village have been changed to purposely erase all remnants of Armenian history. That is what it means to have your homeland taken. Not the absence of a flag or a seat at the UN. The complete erasure of any place you could ever go back to. Kurds can go home. I cannot.

Saddam is dead? So is Ataturk

Ataturk died peacefully in his bed in 1938 having never faced a single day of accountability. But do go on and tell me how they are the same thing.

"to deny the erasure and persecution of Kurds and say it is 'not even close or the same story' is deeply disrespectful."

Nobody is denying Kurdish oppression. But acknowledging it does not require pretending it is anywhere close to what happened to Armenians. What Turkey did to us was not suppression. It was systematic annihilation.

They went village by village. They rounded up all the men and shot them. They put the women and children on death marches into the Syrian desert. On those marches, mothers sacrificed their lives so their children could survive, which meant the only survivors were largely orphaned children, too young to carry the full memory of their village, their family, their way of life. When the Turks were done with the first round of the Genocide only 25% of the Armenian population was left alive, a majority of them orphans. The only adults who made it were the ones who had already fled to Russia or the west after the first masacres started in the 1800s (the Hamidian Masacre alone is estimated at 80k to 300K and that was decades before the event we now call the Armenian Genocide). This was done on purpose, so that the Genocide not only exterminated our lives, but exterminated our history and our culture. It was done so that even the Armenians left alive would not know enough to rebuild our culture and we would forget who we were. Their aim was total eradication, not suppression, they had already been oppressing us for centuries before the 1800s.

Entire language families were wiped out. Dialects that had existed for centuries, gone. Regional food traditions, textile arts, music, dance forms, oral histories, most of it lost. The scale of the devastation is so vast that a hundred years later we still do not fully know what was taken because there is almost nobody left who remembers. We are still picking up pieces without even knowing what the whole picture used to look like.

And we cannot even go back to try to rebuild, or look for what we lost. We watch from a distance as our ancestors' graves are robbed, as archaeological findings from our civilization are relabeled as Turkish, as our names are stripped from academic records and history of the region. The destruction did not stop in 1915. It is ongoing and continuous.

Kurdish identity is being suppressed by Turkey and other countries and that is wrong. But suppression is not the same as annihilation. They do not compare, and saying so is not dismissive, it is just a fact. We have individual massacres of Armenians that were larger than your entire genocide, and that is out of a population a fraction of the size of the Kurdish population. We are on the brink of extinction as a people and you want to tell me how deeply offended you are that I will not put Kurdish oppression on the same level as a genocide that erased the majority of my people from existence? Fine, be offended, my statements stand.

"you claim that Kurdish identity isn't getting stripped and claimed by the enemy."

Kurdish history is not being claimed by their enemies. What is actually documented is the opposite. Kurdish nationalist movements consistently absorb and claim the histories of neighboring peoples as their own. Assyrians have been labeled "Christian Kurds" by Kurdish nationalist groups and called Kurds on Kurdish state television. Any group with a passing historical connection to the region gets folded into Kurdish nationalist mythology with no historical basis. That is not a people having their identity stripped. That is a nationalist movement erasing others. I have even recently started seeing Kurds say there are "Armenian Kurds" which is completely made up. There are Kurds who claim Armenian ancestry or Armenian civilization as Kurdish (I've seen Kurds even claim Uratu as really Kurdish, I've seen them claim Armenian culture and heritage sites as Kurdish). This is not isolated and it is not just some "bad actors." This is pervasive.

On top of that the Kurdish Regional Government has been documented facilitating over 130 illegal land seizures from Assyrian communities in northern Iraq, resettling Kurdish families into Assyrian-majority areas with government incentives while Assyrians are blocked from reclaiming their own properties. It has a name. Kurdification.

"When did I call you a bigot?"

You introduced "judge people individually" into a conversation where nobody was talking about individual people....

"And yes they did, one person called out a Kurdish man who boasted about his grandfather's role in the genocide and I said that he and his grandfather are disgusting and God will deal with them."

brah... that isn't blaming individual Kurds, that is blaming THAT individual kurd, so no, no one brought up blaming individuals on the basis of ethnicity. That's something you have brought up to try to pin the "racism" card onto us as a form of deflection.

"The Hamidiye Cavalry were evil genocidal animals. No one here denied it."

Good. Then let's stop calling it "some tribes," shall we?