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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 mill...

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. Email to a Friend President Biden.Drew Angerer/Photographer: Drew Angerer/Getty 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-er...

Breaking With Predecessors, Biden Declares Mass Killings of Armenians a Genocide The Turkish government, as well as human rights activists and ethnic Armenians, had a muted response to the news, describing the move as largely symbolic. A torchlight procession in Yerevan on Friday to mark the 106th anniversary of the massacres in which about 1.5 million ethnic Armenians were killed during World War I.Credit...Karen Minasyan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images April 24, 2021Updated 2:53 p.m. ET WASHINGTON — President Biden on Saturday recognized the mass killings of Armenians more than a ce...

Turkey’s jailed rights leader Kavala faces new trial 278 Osman Kavala appears Friday before an Istanbul court on charges that rights groups say are part of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s effort to stifle dissent. court mulls whether his detention — ongoing without a conviction for more than three years — is lawful. US academic Henri Barkey is also being tried in absentia alongside Kavala in a case linked to the 2016 failed coup attempt against Erdogan. Rights groups view Kavala’s case as a bellwether on the state of freedom of expression under Erdogan — a strong-willed leader wh...

ADDS European Parliament statement A Turkish court on Friday ordered civil society leader Osman Kavala to remain in jail pending trial on charges that rights groups say are part of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's bid to stifle dissent. The presiding judge rejected a defence request to release the 63-year-old -- in custody without a conviction for more than three years -- and set a trial date for February 5. US academic Henri Barkey is being tried in absentia alongside Kavala in a case linked to the 2016 failed coup attempt against Erdogan. "I have opposed military coups my entire life and ha...