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POV: Biden Confirms Armenian Genocide as "Historical Fact" | BU Today


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POV: Biden Confirms Armenian Genocide as “Historical Fact”
BU professor on Armenian history Simon Payaslian says president’s words carry “enormous historical significance for Armenian community.”
April 26, 2021
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President Joe Biden’s statement on Saturday about Armenian Remembrance Day officially labeling the Ottoman Turkish government’s killing of 1.5 million of its Armenian citizens as “genocide” is the culmination of years of effort by the Armenian community to affirm the historical truth of the genocide. April 24 has served as Armenian Genocide commemoration day because on that date, in 1915, the Young Turk nationalist leaders arrested the Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople (Istanbul), then the Ottoman capital. Thus, traditionally April 24 has come to symbolize the la ....

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