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Biden to recognize atrocities against Armenians as genocide
Biden told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday of his plan to describe the killings and deportations of hundreds of thousands of Armenians as genocide.
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President Joe Biden on Saturday plans to follow through on a campaign pledge to formally recognize that atrocities committed against the Armenian people by the Ottoman Empire more than a century ago in modern-day Turkey were genocide, according to U.S. officials.
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Biden says U.S. recognizes century-old mass killings of Armenians as genocide
U.S. President Joe Biden has formally recognized that the systematic killings and deportations of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by Ottoman Empire forces in the early 20th century were genocide using a term for the atrocities that his White House predecessors have avoided.
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U.S. President Joe Biden, shown on March 31, said on Saturday that the mass killings of Armenians in the final years of the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide.(Evan Vucci/The Associated Press)
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President Joe Biden has formally recognized that the systematic killings and deportations of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by Ottoman Empire forces in the early 20th century were “genocide” – using a term for the atrocities that his White House predecessors have avoided for decades over concerns of alienating Turkey.
With the acknowledgement, Mr. Biden followed through on a campaign promise he made a year ago Saturday – the annual commemoration of Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day – to recognize that the events of 1915 to 1923 were a deliberate effort to wipe out Armenians.
While previous presidents have offered somber reflections of the dark moment in history via remembrance day proclamations, they have studiously avoided using the term genocide out of concern that it would complicate relations with Turkey – a NATO ally and important power in the Middle East.