Eh, every countries history has its black pages. The main difference i see with Turkey and the Armenians, and say, the Dutch and our Golden Age (yay, plieing the 7 seas, trading slaves wherever we can!), is that while our govenrmentis constantly apologising for it, due to an increased understanding/change of morals, the Turkish government isnt.
Now, the way i see this, this has several reasons:
a). The Armenian Genocide happened during the deaththroes of the Ottoman Empire (iirc). The current Turkish government was founded by Ataturk, who is still revered as leader of the Turks etc.
Now, if the current turkish government would admit fault in this caboodle, it would a). admit that they have some black pages of their own. b). take (part) of the blame away from the Ottomans. (yay, dead governments make easy scapegoats), and c). be forced to admit that Ataturk, also had a few negative points (this actually beeing a major point of me).
Contrary to that, the "problems" (i dont see them as problems as the dutch govnmnt. is constantly apologising) the dutch government has with the golden age/slavery past, is the fault of the direct forefathers (well, if you can call the VoC/WiC that) of what is the current government. No scapegoat there...
Same with the Japanese government continually apologizing for the WW2/brutality. (In this case, even though countless reports are there, the whole Comfort Woman (look that up on wiki), still stirs up problems.
What i admire in the Turkish situation, is the the-consitution-counts-for-all,-even-if-it-knocks-down-our-government stance.
Anyway, i had to much beer and forgot where i was going with this. Ohwell...