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| Biden Poised To Declare Turkish Genocide Against Armenians |
| 2021-04-24 |
| [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 |
| #7 Better make sure that an animatronic delivers the speech. With Plugz, it might come out as "I declare as an executive order, effective immediately, that there be a genocide against the Armenians..." |
| Posted by: Chunky Flereting7354 2021-04-24 15:18 |
| #6 Why a hundred years later? Biden is messing with bad people. |
| Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-04-24 14:04 |
| #5 Another sign that US foreign policy is schizophrenic at best... |
| Posted by: magpie 2021-04-24 11:43 |
| #4 Will last only until Turkey puts Hunter on payroll. But until then Õ†Õ¡Õ´Õ¡Õ¯ ÔµÖ€Ö‡Õ¡Õ¶Õ«Õ½ ... |
| Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-04-24 08:53 |
| #3 Hoo boy. The geniuses are working overtime to drive up the rental prices on Turkish Armed Forces for E.U. Me likes it. |
| Posted by: Nomad 2021-04-24 03:16 |
| #2 No doubt somebody had a Bright Idea, SteveS, thinking only in terms of the posturing instead if considering the consequences — and of course President Biden isn’t going to say no to any of the parties actually running his show. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-04-24 00:44 |
| #1 I'm fine with pointlessly annoying the Turks. It appeals to my Inner Gullenist. But why is the United States doing this, and why now? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2021-04-24 00:24 |