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By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON, April 24 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Saturday that the 1915 massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide, a historic declaration that infuriated Turkey and further strained frayed ties between the two NATO allies. The largely symbolic move, breaking away from decades of carefully calibrated language from the White House, was welcomed by the Armenian diaspora in the United States, but comes at a time when Ankara and Washington grapple with deep policy disagreements over a host of issues. Turkey s government and most of the opposition showed rare unity in their rejection of Biden s statement. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Turkey entirely rejects the U.S. decision which he said was based solely on populism , while the opposition denounced it as a major mistake .

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