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President Biden officially recognizes Armenian genocideBiden became the first president while in office to formally recognize the massacre by the Ottom…Read MorePresident Joe Biden formally recognized the Ottoman Empire’s killing and deportation of Armenians over a century ago as a genocide, breaking from his predecessors and risking inflaming tensions with Turkey.Biden had pledged as a presidential candidate to recognize the Armenians’ treatment, which took place in modern-day Turkey, as genocide. Armenian-Americans have long called on U.S. presidents to do so, but Turkey, a key NATO ally, has warned the U.S. against it, long maintaining that the violence was part of bloody clashes during World War I.he Turkish government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said “we reject and denounce in the strongest terms” Biden’s designation, adding it “will open a deep wound that undermines our mutual trust and friendship.PHOTO: In this March 24, 2021, file photo, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gestures as he delivers a speech during his ruling party’s congress inside a packed sports hall in Ankara, TurkeyIn this March 24, 2021, file photo, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gestures as he deliver…Read MorTies between the two allies have been increasingly strained in recent years, although Biden finally spoke to Erdogan Friday — their first call during Biden’s tenure — and conveyed “his interest in a constructive bilateral relationship with expanded areas of cooperation and effective management of disagreements.”
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MORE: Putin challenges Biden to debate after president calls him a ‘killer’Biden used the word “genocide” in a statement to mark “Armenian Remembrance Day” on Saturday — 106 years after the events that the Armenian diaspora considers the start of the genocide. Previous presidents had avoided using the label even as they made the traditional, annual proclamation honoring the anniversary”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 the statement. “The American people honor all those Armenians who perished in the genocide that began 106 years ago today,” he added.The statement was expected, especially after then-candidate Biden marked last year’s remembrance day by saying, “Silence is complicity.”PHOTO: An encampment of Armenian refugees on the deck of a French cruiser that rescued them, 1915.”If we do not fully acknowledge, commemorate, and teach our children about genocide, the words ‘never again’ lose their meaning,” he wrote, pledging to back a congressional resolution that recognized the Ottoman Empire’s actions as genocide. Resolutions to recognize the genocide passed the House and Senate in 2019, but former President Donald Trump, like his predecessors, never joined them.
