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There is nothing localized about 1.5 million people who were killed through marches and concentration camps.
Except that is not the only way that 1.5 million number was derived. It was more 100 here and 1000 there. From what I read of it sometime ago, it was more local civil and military authorities, and sometimes just murderous riots. While I DO believe the Ottoman national leaders turned a blind eye to it and maybe even approved, that does not equate to ordering a genocide.
The USA government even thru Kennedy and Johnson was well aware of persecution and murder of blacks particularly in the South, and did little to nothing when they could have for political reasons, but that does not make it an action they took. I have never read any evidence that the Ottoman federal government leadership ordered the rounding up and killing of all Armenians. This is unlike what happened in Germany.
A concentration camp isn't a genocide. The USA had concentration camps during the Civil War - and a large percentage of the prisoners died - and during WWII. That does not constitute genocide. Nor does forced marches.
The Cherokee "Trail of Tears" was in effect a death march, and government ordered (with this prior declared by the US Supreme Court illegal), but it falls short of genocide as the goal was not to kill all Cherokee. Rather, it was to move all Cherokee with indifference to the suffering and death this would cause by the forced march.
Words like "crime against humanity," "slaughter of civilians," "killing and abuse of POWs," "governmental murderous criminal act" and more apply, but not genocide. Genocide was when the USA military charged into NA villages and killed everyone. THAT was genocide.
So it gets MORE complicated, doesn't it? I would agree there were "genocides" within the Ottoman Empire that was localized - ie a deliberate killing of every Armenian they could find. But, again, there is nothing I've seen by which the Ottoman federal authority issued an order to round up and kill all Armenians - either directly or by action (such as in Germany.)