I disagree. The AKP is really quite pro-Western - its rivals, except the DTP and successors, are more anti-American than they are. Of course, Turkey being both a Muslim country and a strongly nationalistic one, there is a sizeable part of the population that is anti-American and I'm sure those are represented here and there among AKP politicians, but as a whole, the AKP has stuck to its policy of having good relationships with all foreign countries who want them. I haven't seen any significant anti-American rhetoric from the government, unless of course you mean some of the angry statements at the voting on this genocide resolution.

As for denying the Armenian genocide, yes, both do it, but it should be obvious that the AKP is the less fervent about it, and offers the best chances of eventually acknowleding it at some point - if the US and other countries would stop trying to force the issue and provoking angry reactions. And "blaming the victims" - it's simply a fact that the Armenian genocide, like most genocides, is morally a little more complicated than the Holocaust. The Osman Empire had some cause to be wary of the Armenians and to view them as a fifth column - but then part of the reason for that were the pogrom-like incidents that had happened against Armenians in the preceding decades. Obviously there's nothing that remotely begins to excuse the scale of the killings and the mass murders of entire villages that took place, but one can see why the Turks would not want to be shouldered with the full blame the way the Nazis were for the Holocaust, and the evidence that the genocide was planned and orchestrated intentionally, rather than a matter of things getting utterly out of hand, isn't too solid. The problem with accusations of genocide is that such a word tends to make people put the entirety of the blame on one party, when in many cases things are more complex than that, Rwanda is a similar case.

I wasn't really comparing Turkey to Russia so much as your stance towards Turkey to some people's stances towards Russia. A lot of people on this site and elsewhere have a pronounced dislike for Russia and refuse to look at it in a more nuanced way that distinguishes between the various actors, takes gradual changes of policy into account and praises the good as well as criticizing the bad, which is an attitude you've rightly criticized. But your attitude towards Turkey (and other people's, like Joel) seems quite similar.