What did Kemal Ataturk think about the Armenian Genocide?

According to Mustafa Kemal, "the massacre and deportation of Armenians was the work of a small committee who had seized the power." .... Jamal Pasha [then Turkish military ruler in Palestine] planned from the outset to destroy the entire Hebrew settlement in Eretz Yisrael, exactly as they did the Armenians in Armenia. read more

It should be made clear that Armenian Genocide took place in the year 1915, during the World War I, while Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) was a lieutenant colonel fighting in the Battle of Gallipoli. So, he was not directly involved in the Armenian Genocide. read more

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938) was the founder of the Republic of Turkey and the consummator of the Armenian Genocide. Kemal was an officer in the Turkish army whose defense of Gallipoli in 1915-1916 defeated the Allied campaign to breach the Dardanelles and quickly eliminate the Ottoman Empire from World War I. read more