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Biden Poised To Declare Turkish Genocide Against Armenians
[WSJ] WASHINGTON; President Biden is poised to formally declare that the massacres of Armenians in the early 20th century constituted genocide, U.S. officials said, a rare step that would further inflame ties with Turkey.Mr. Biden is expected to describe as genocide the deportation, starvation and massacres of Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Turks beginning in 1915, the officials said. [Then there is the Turkish ethnic cleaning vs Syriac and Greek Christians and we could acknowledge that the Kurds helped in the Armenian Genocide and then there is the Soviet Genocide of Ukraine] Turkey denies the killings constituted genocide, saying that Armenians rose up against the government. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told Haberturk television on Tuesday that a declaration by Mr. Biden would only harm ties. A spokesman for the Turkish embassy in Washington had no immediate comment. Most historians recognize the Ottoman Empire’s treatment of Armenians and members of other ethnic and religious minorities from 1915 to 1923 as a genocide. Posted by: Lord Garth 2021-04-24 |
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