By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife and BosNewsLife News Center in Budapest WASHINGTON/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife) Christian rights .
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By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife and BosNewsLife News Center in Budapest
WASHINGTON/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife)– Christian rights activists welcome news that Joe Biden will become the first American president to formally recognize the massacre of Armenian people by the Ottoman Empire as an act of genocide.
The genocide in 1915 of an estimated 1.5 million mainly Christian Armenians by Ottoman Empire forces is marked annually worldwide on April 24. Turkey contests the figures and denies that the killings were systematically orchestrated and constitute a genocide.
Ronald Reagan was the last U.S. president to refer to the “genocide of the Armenians” when discussing the Holocaust in 1981. But he later backtracked on using the term while in office under pressure from Turkey, the successor state to the Ottoman Empire, which collapsed after World War I.