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On Friday President Biden informed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a phone call that the White House will formally recognize the Armenian genocide on Saturday. Biden is expected to for the first time specifically invoke the word genocide in the Saturday commemoration of Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, which will make him the first ever US president to do so. Via AP This has been among the most controversial topics in modern Turkish society, and throughout past decades, which is subject in some cases to criminal prosecution by the Turkish state. And it remains a Turkish red line  for which all the country s recent modern leaders have reacted fiercely at the mere suggestion, and which only thirty countries in the world officially acknowledge. The United States will now be the 31st, and likely more will follow the example of t .

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