Will The US Armenian Genocide Recognition Trigger a Diplomatic Crisis With Ankara? Published April 26th, 2021 - 07:20 GMT
A member of the Armenian community holds placard during a rally to commemorate the 106th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, in Thessaloniki, northern Greece on April 24, 2021. US President Joe Biden on April 24, 2021 recognized the 1915 killings of Armenians by Ottoman forces as genocide
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Biden formally recognized the 1915 Armenian genocide.
Turkey has shown unexpected restraint after US President Joe Biden formally recognized the 1915 massacre of Armenians as genocide by so far avoiding the deployment of rebellious or bellicose rhetoric against its NATO ally.
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ANKARA: Turkey has shown unexpected restraint after US President Joe Biden formally recognized the 1915 massacre of Armenians as genocide by so far avoiding the deployment of rebellious or bellicose rhetoric against its NATO ally.
Turkey maintains that the killing of Armenians was not systematically orchestrated and that they died in wartime conditions, leaving the government with two options after Biden’s Saturday statement.
Either it can continue to be cautious and dodge a diplomatic crisis with the US at a time when the Turkish lira is depreciating against the dollar, or it can move further into Russia’s orbit and risk seriously damaging relations.
Washington: President Joe Biden on Saturday recognized the mass killings of Armenians more than a century ago as genocide, signaling a willingness to test an increasingly frayed relationship with Turkey, long a key regional ally and an important partner within NATO. Each year on this day, we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever again occurring, Biden said in a statement issued on the 106th anniversary of the beginning of a brutal campaign by the former Ottoman Empire that killed 1.5 million people. And we remember so that we remain ever vigilant against the corrosive influence of hate in all its forms.
Biden recognizes century-old atrocities against Armenians were genocide
By Katie Rogers and Carlotta Gall New York Times,Updated April 24, 2021, 12:12 p.m.
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WASHINGTON â President Joe Biden on Saturday recognized the mass killings of Armenians more than a century ago as genocide, signaling a willingness to test an increasingly frayed relationship with Turkey, long a key regional ally and an important partner within NATO.
âEach year on this day, we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever again occurring,â Biden said in a statement issued on the 106th anniversary of the beginning of a brutal campaign by the former Ottoman Empire that killed 1.5 million people. âAnd we remember so that we remain ever vigilant against the corrosive influence of hate in all its forms.â