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That face when you successfully ethnic cleanse.
Wrong Turkish leader(s) - Mustafa Kemal condemned the Armenian genocide, and is generally accepted to have been unaware of the extensive whitewashing of the army's reports during the Dersim Genocide during the last year of his life.
Idk, I feel like anyone who had power in Türkiye up until the 70's at least had some culpability. If it wasn't the Armenians it was the Greeks or Jews. Was a rough time and place to be anything but ethnically/religiously turk.
You're not wrong about having some culpability in the course of events - certainly Ataturk engaged in the same linguistic nationalism and marginalization of Kurds that later Turkish governments would escalate (and, as mentioned, in the last year of his life did escalate) - but other than the population exchanges with Greece at the end of the Turkish War of Independence, I would regard Ataturk's personal involvement, as a leader, in ethnic cleansing to be marginal at most.