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Terrible Vengeance : The History Of Turkish Atrocities Against Armenians And Why Biden Is Poised To Call Them Genocide
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Biden preparing to declare that atrocities against Armenia were genocide
By Lara Jakes New York Times,Updated April 21, 2021, 2 hours ago
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WASHINGTON â More than a century after the Ottoman Empireâs killing of an estimated 1.5 million Armenian civilians, President Joe Biden is preparing to declare that the atrocities were an act of genocide, according to officials familiar with the internal debate. The action would signal that the American commitment to human rights outweighs the risk of further fraying the US alliance with Turkey.
Biden is expected to announce the symbolic designation on Saturday, the 106th anniversary of the beginning of what historians call a yearslong and systematic death march that the predecessors of modern Turkey started during World War I. He would be the first sitting American president to do so, although Ronald Reagan made a glancing reference to the Armenian genocide in a 1981