One of the best posters at Jihadwatch is "gravenimage" (and another is "Dumbledore's Army" to whom I initially, and wrongly -- see the comments -- assigned the credit). Today, from sunny San Franciso, she posted, in a thread under a piece at Jihad Watch about  Erdogan's threat to expel 100,000 Armenians,  the following excerpts from a diary kept by a Turkish officer who witnessed the mass-murdering of Christian Armenians by Muslim Turks and Kurds:

"Here's a passage from a first-hand account from 1916 by a Turkish Army officer, Lieutenant Sayied Ahmed Moukhtar Baas, who was sickened by the atrocities:

"The women and children were sent ahead under escort with the assurance by the Turkish authorities that their final destination was Mosul and that no harm will befall them. The men kept behind, were taken out of town in batches of 15 and 20, lined up on the edge of ditches prepared beforehand, shot and thrown into the ditches. Hundreds of men were shot every day in a similar manner. The women and children were attacked on their way by the ("Shotas") the armed bands organised by the Turkish Government who attacked them and seized a certain number. After plundering and committing the most dastardly outrages on the women and children they massacred them in cold blood. These attacks were a daily occurrence until every woman and child had been got rid of. The military escorts had strict orders not to interfere with the "Shotas"."

[Of course, the reference to "committing the most dastardly outrages" on the women and children means rape—GI]

"The children that the Government had taken in charge were also deported and massacred.

The infants in the care of the American Consul of Trebizond were taken away with the pretext that they were going to be sent to Sivas where an asylum had been prepared for them. They were taken out to sea in little boats. At some distance out they were stabbed to death, put in sacks and thrown into the sea. A few days later some of their little bodies were washed up on the shore at Trebizond.

In July 1915 I was ordered to accompany a convoy of deported Armenians. It was the last batch from Trebizond. There were in the convoy 120 men, 700 children and about 400 women. From Trebizond I took them to Gumish-Khana. Here the 120 men were taken away, and, as I was informed later, they were all killed. At Gumish-Khana I was ordered to take the women and children to Erzinjian. On the way I saw thousands of bodies of Armenians unburied. Several bands of "Shotas" met us on the way and wanted me to hand over to them women and children. But I persistently refused. I did leave on the way about 300 children with Moslem families who were willing to take care of them and educate them.

[Clearly, the relatively decent Lieutenant Baas hoped for the best here. If these children were "lucky"—luckier than their families, in any case—they were converted to Islam and raised by their new Muslim families. This did not always happen—there are numerous reports of Muslim families, who, on the pretext of taking in these children, used them as slaves and sex slaves, and eventually murdered them—GI]

"The "Mutessarrif" of Erzinjian ordered me to proceed with the convoy to Kamack. At the latter place the authorities refused to take charge of the women and children. I fell ill and wanted to go back, but I was told that as long as the Armenians in my charge were alive I would be sent from one place to the other. However I managed to include my batch with the deported Armenians that had come from Erzeroum. In charge of the latter was a colleague of mine Mohamed Effendi from the Gendarmerie. He told me afterwards that after leaving Kamach they came to a valley where the Euphrates ran. A band of Shotas sprang out and stopped the convoy. They ordered the escort to keep away and then shot every one of the Armenians and threw them in the river."

http://www.armenian-genocide.org/br-12-26-16-text.html

An excellent—and deeply disturbing—book on the Armenian genocide is "The Burning Tigris", by Peter Balakian."