And how does that do anything but make Turkey's denial even worse and give more reason for them to recognize the genocide?

I never said you could pay 1:1 for a tragedy like the holocaust. Those lives cannot come back. That is a tragedy, nothing can make up for it and that can't be denied.

However, the point of justice is to at least try to make the damage better. Germany has done this for 3/4 of a century now by the reparations they pay to Israel and, despite what you might think from polls saying Israel is hated, which is due to that state's policies, not the people, Judaism and Jewish people are revered in Germany as part of the country's heritage and seen as something like a precious gift to earth. Take that from my own experience living in Germany, seeing all the monuments and synagogues despite a small current Jewish population in Germany. I was shocked at how much fun is still openly poked at Jews around the world once I moved away from Germany (e.g. calling a greedy person Jew). Something like that would be considered a scandal in Germany.

Contrast that to Turkey where calling someone Armenian is the biggest insult, all contributions of Armenians to history, like the architecture in Istanbul, are erased from textbooks, Armenian place names have been changed to Turkish ones, churches are stripped off crosses, turned into museums, and there is an ongoing blockade on Armenia since their independence 25 years ago, devastating the economy and forcing even more Armenians out of their homeland to find work abroad.

I agree that genocide is a crime too horrendous to be undone by any means. But imagine if, instead of reparations, Jews got the same treatment from Germany that Armenians get from Turkey. That's why Turkey cannot be treated with any respect until they own up and at least try to make up for the horrible crimes they have committed, instead of perpetuating the process of genocide in any way they can without causing an uproar by the international community.