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President Biden on Saturday became the first president in 40 years to call the mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915 a genocide. While addressing Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, Biden said the American people honor all those Armenians who perished in the genocide that began 106 years ago today. The statement fulfills a campaign promise Biden made to Armenian-Americans. Former President Barack Obama had made a similar promise, but ultimately refrained from using the politically-charged term. Former President Ronald Reagan was the
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Joe Biden recognizes atrocities against Armenians as genocide
Armenian honor guards attend 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. Image via AP.
While previous presidents have offered somber reflections, they have avoided using the term genocide.
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.
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.
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