I don't think the handling of the Kurdish issue is isolated from Armenian genocide. In fact, I don't think any issue in Turkey is isolated from that. This is our national style, Turkish journalist, writer and columnist of Radikal newspaper Umit Kivanc writes in an article published in Worldcrunch.

According to the journalist, one of the most distinguishable qualities of Turkey's Sunni Muslim majority is their penchant for jumping.

“Jumping one step forward from where they're supposed to be, jumping one paragraph below the one they should actually read, jumping just clear of the matter they should consider or the historical issue at hand. They can't, for example, discuss Armenian genocide. Because it's not possible to talk about the period when the genocide was planned and practiced. They always jump to what happened after because that is where Armenian acts of revenge can be found. They rationalize the mass organized slaughter and deportation of people from their homeland by saying, "but, but..." and talking about "Armenian gangs" and their actions,” Kivanc writes.

According to him, the Kurdish belief that they need an army is a direct consequence of actions by both the state and the Sunni majority more generally as too many Kurds who tried to create change through politics and not arms wound up dead or in jail.

“And now, after June elections saw the legal Kurdish political party (Peoples’ Democratic Party, HDP) receive enough of the vote to get 80 seats in parliament, the majority and the state effectively say, "It doesn't matter that your party transformed from a local to a nationwide movement. It doesn't matter that you passed the election threshold and were able to enter the parliament. It means nothing that this path promises a peaceful future for the country. There will be no path of peaceful politics for you. There will be no peace in your villages and cities. You do not have the right to live unless you kneel," he notes.