Biden to recognize atrocities against Armenians as genocide
By AAMER MADHANI, MATTHEW LEE and ZEYNEP BILGINSOYApril 24, 2021 GMT
WASHINGTON (AP) President Joe Biden on Saturday plans to follow through on a campaign pledge to formally recognize that atrocities committed against the Armenian people by the Ottoman Empire more than a century ago in modern-day Turkey were genocide, according to U.S. officials familiar with the president’s deliberations.
Biden spoke to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday in anticipation of his plan, in a presidential proclamation to mark Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, to use the term genocide to describe the killings and deportations of hundreds of thousands of Armenians. U.S. presidents for decades have acknowledged Remembrance Day to mark the events of 1915 to 1923 but have avoided using the term “genocide” to sidestep alienating Turkey.
Raising ire of Turkey, Biden recognizes century-old atrocities against Armenians as genocide
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Biden recognizes atrocities against Armenians as genocide Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, center, attends a memorial service at the monument to the victims of mass killings by Ottoman Turks, to commemorate the 106th anniversary of the massacre, in Yerevan, Armenia, Saturday, April 24, 2021. Armenians marked the anniversary of the death of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks, an event widely viewed by scholars as genocide, though Turkey refutes the claim. (Source: Tigran Mehrabyan) By Associated Press | April 24, 2021 at 10:08 AM CDT - Updated April 24 at 1:17 PM
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) The systematic killing and deportation of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by Ottoman Empire forces in the early 20th century was “genocide,” the United States formally declared on Saturday, as President Joe Biden used that precise word after the White House had avoided it for decades for fear of alienating ally Turkey.
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Good morning. I’m Paul Thornton, and it is Saturday, April 24, 2021. Today is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, and President Biden is reportedly poised to call the murder of an estimated 1 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire more than 100 years ago a genocide (this why that’s a really big deal, especially in Los Angeles). Let’s take a look back at the week in Opinion.
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