BY DR. DIKRAN M. KALIGIAN
Last September Turkey’s autocratic ruler, Recep Erdogan, joined Azerbaijan in an unprovoked invasion of one of the few democratic states of the former Soviet Union. Rather than condemn this bloody attack on the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh by an ostensible NATO ally, the Trump Administration turned a blind eye to a war that included Turkey dropping cluster bombs on Armenian civilians, torturing POWs, and importing jihadi mercenaries from Syria, all violations of international law.
The Biden Administration has the opportunity to regain the moral high ground now by taking a simple step that will undo decades of kowtowing to Turkey’s blackmail while showing that violations of human rights and international law carry consequences: recognize the Armenian Genocide in his April 24