Quote Originally Posted by Komutan
What purpose do such bills have(other than pleasing Armenian voters)?
Apart from propaganda value, not really.

I agree that a place like Congress is the most appropriate to discuss historical issues, unless there's a diplomatic agenda at work.
Quote Originally Posted by Komutan
If this issue was not discussed by foreign countries so much, I am sure Turks would eventually accept what has happened.
Oh, but that is a problem, you see, because meanwhile the Turkish government and whatever extreme nationalist scumbags within it will proceed to brainwash your nation from the roots: by whitewashing the history textbooks. The consequence of that, if successful, would be for the genocide to be forgotten forever, unacknowledged.

The activists and I suppose some historians cannot accept that, so they continue to raise the issue, even if the calm from controversy might just as well be the thing the Turkish people needs from another perspective. As long as the controversy continues no one will forget.