Calling The Armenian Genocide What Was

The Oxford English Dictionary definition for Genocide is 'the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group' while Article Two of the UN Convention on Genocide of December 1948 describes genocide as 'carrying out acts intended to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group'.
With the definition pretty clear, it would be hard to say that the deliberate killing of 1.5 million nationals does not fit the description of genocide as above so it has always been a hard sell for the Turks to get uppity when is it said that what they did to the Armenians in 1915-16 was not genocide.
Turkey does not dispute that many Armenians died when the Ottoman Turks deported them en masse from eastern Anatolia to the Syrian desert where they either were killed or died from starvation or disease but they have responded angrily to the American President, Joe Biden, issuing a statement formally describing the massacre of Armenians as a genocide.
The Turkish foreign ministry has replied that Turkey 'reject and denounce in the strongest terms the statement made under the pressure of radical Armenian circles and anti-Turkey groups' which begs the question of if it wasn't genocide, what would their act of deliberate killing a large number of people from a particular nation?
The Thesaurus offers up holocaust, mass murder, massacre, slaughter, annihilation, decimation, ethnic cleansing, mass execution or race extermination which are just other ways of saying the same thing so if it looks like genocide, smells like genocide and fits the Dictionary description perfectly, they genocide it is and you don't have to be a radical Armenian or a member of an anti-Turkey group to see that.