At the beginning of 1915 there were some two million Armenians within Turkey; today there are fewer than 60,000.. denial of the Armenian Genocide by successive regimes in Turkey has gone on from 1915 to the present. The Genocide Education Project.
Not only has Turkey repeatedly denied culpability for the Armenian Genocide; it appears intent on reigniting it, most recently by helping Azerbaijan wage war on Armenia in the context of the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute, which again erupted into armed conflict in late 2020. Why has Turkey returned to the South Caucasus 100 years [after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire]? To continue the Armenian Genocide. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Facebook, October 1, 2020.
Biden to recognize atrocities against Armenians as genocide
Biden told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday of his plan to describe the killings and deportations of hundreds of thousands of Armenians as genocide.
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FILE - In this April 15, 2021, file photo President Joe Biden speaks about Russia in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) Author: Associated Press Updated: 8:54 AM EDT April 24, 2021
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.
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