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Biden Calls Slaughter Of Armenians A Genocide, Posing Test For U S Ties With Turkey
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President Biden Rejects Turkey s Gag-Rule, Recognizes Armenian Genocide
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President Joe Biden’s expected decision to identify Ottoman atrocities against Armenians as a genocide could trigger a new diplomatic crisis with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and worsen U.S.-Turkish disputes on a range of issues.
“Erdogan, who some refer to as a neo-Ottoman leader, is emotionally invested as much in the Ottoman Empire as he is in the Turkish republic,” said former Turkish opposition lawmaker Aykan Erdemir, who leads the Turkey program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “So for him, this is one red line very difficult to cross.”
That impediment deterred previous American presidents from using “genocide” to describe the Armenian ordeal during World War I, when Ottoman officials eager to “Turkify” the embattled empire expelled or killed about 1.5 million Armenian Christians. That hesitation has been fading in recent years, as lawmakers in both parties responsive to appeals from the Armenian diaspora, and Ch
Alex Arabian April 23, 2021
Director Terry George (left), producer Eric Esrailian, and actors Oscar Isaac and Christian Bale on the set of the 2016 film “The Promise.” Photo: Courtesy Eric Esrailian
Between church in Potrero Hill and Armenian Saturday school in Ocean View, Eric Esrailian frequently watched movies at the Kabuki Theater in Japantown while growing up in San Francisco. Religion, education and the arts have played major roles in the physician, Emmy-nominated film producer and activist’s life.
“I love storytelling,” the UC Berkeley alumnus told The Chronicle in a recent video interview from his home in Los Angeles.
The fourth pillar of his development is his family’s story. Like many first-generation Armenian Americans in the Bay Area, the trauma of a long-denied history bears a heavy influence on Esrailian, whose great-grandparents escaped the Armenian genocide.
Apr 23, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) President Joe Biden is preparing to formally acknowledge that the systematic killing and deportation of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in modern-day Turkey more than a century ago was genocide, according to U.S. officials.
The anticipated move something Biden had pledged to do as a candidate could further complicate an already tense relationship with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Administration officials had not informed Turkey as of Wednesday, and Biden could still change his mind, according to one official. The U.S. officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
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