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A glass-encased tower of skulls, and trees seen in a reflection at the the Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia, an Orthodox church in Antelias, Lebanon, in March 2015. At the risk of infuriating Turkey, President Joe Biden is set to formally announce that the United States regards the killing of 1.5 million Armenians more than a century ago to be a genocide. | BRYAN DENTON/THE NEW YORK TIMES
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Biden recognizes atrocities against Armenians more than 100 years ago as genocide
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President Joe Biden, seen here at the White House on April 15, officially recognizes the massacre of Armenians in World War I as a genocide. | Courtesy Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
WILMINGTON, Delaware (AP) The United States is formally recognizing that the systematic killing and deportation of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by Ottoman Empire forces in the early 20th century was “genocide” as President Joe Biden used that precise word that the White House has avoided for decades for fear of alienating ally Turkey.
Biden recognizes as genocide the 19th century killing of 1.5M Armenians by Ottoman Turks Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY
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WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden on Saturday formally recognized the systematic killing of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923 as an act of genocide, a long-sought declaration among Armenian-Americans that could further strain U.S.-Turkey relations. Beginning on April 24, 1915, with the arrest of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople by Ottoman authorities, one and a half million Armenians were deported, massacred, or marched to their deaths in a campaign of extermination, Biden said in a statement on Saturday, marking Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. He emphasized the need to recognize and remember such atrocities so that the horrors of what happened are never lost to history.