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Opinions | To Armenians, Biden s recognition of the genocide means the world

Opinions | To Armenians, Biden’s recognition of the genocide means the world Peter Balakian © Damian Dovarganes/AP Religious leaders and others attend a ceremony Saturday at the Montebello Armenian Genocide Monument in Montebello, Calif. Today, in his statement commemorating the slaughter of the Armenian people on their indigenous lands by the Ottoman Empire, President Biden said the word “genocide,” marking a moment for which Armenian communities across the globe have been clamoring for decades. Until Biden, no American president has had the courage to use that term for fear of angering modern-day Turkish leaders and damaging relations with a powerful ally, even one with an abominable human rights record. But when Biden said “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,” his words affirmed historical fact and embodied moral trut

Armenia Marks Genocide Anniversary

Armenia Marks Genocide Anniversary 1 ժամ առաջ Armenia - People walk to the Tsitsernakabert memorial in Yerevan during an annual commemoration of the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey, April 24, 2021. Կիսվել Տպել Tens of thousands of people marched to the Tsitsernakabert memorial in Yerevan and laid flowers there on Saturday as Armenia marked the 106th anniversary of the genocide of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey. The annual daylong procession began with an official wreath-laying ceremony led by President Armen Sarkissian and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian. For the first time in many years, the country’s political leaders were not joined by Catholicos Garegin II, the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church at odds with Pashinian’s government. Garegin and other high-ranking clergymen visited Tsitsernakabert separately to hold a traditional prayer service by its eternal fire.

Biden recognising Armenian genocide will rock US-Turkey relations

SHARE A little-known yet surprisingly influential player in US-Turkish relations strolled out of a California jail last month with little fanfare. In January 1982, Harry Sassounian and an accomplice approached the car of Turkish Consul General Kemal Arikan in a ritzy area of Los Angeles before shooting and killing the diplomat. It came not long after Ronald Reagan had become the first US president to use the “g-word” to describe the killing of around 1.5 million Armenians in eastern Anatolia before, during and after the First World War. Like the genocide of the Armenians before it,” he said in an April 1981 speech, “the lessons of the Holocaust must never be forgotten.

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