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WASHINGTON—President Biden formally declared the massacres of Armenians in the early 20th century to be genocide, fulfilling a campaign promise to Armenian-Americans and others who have sought such an official acknowledgment for decades. Mr. Biden’s declaration Saturday is the first such formal statement by a sitting U.S. president and will…

Breaking with decades of political tradition set by predecessors from both parties, President Joe Biden has kept his word. He announced on Saturday that the United States officially views the systemic killing of more than one million ethnic Armenians by the Ottoman Empire a century ago as a genocide—a promise…

Varoujan Der Simion at the Grave of the Unknown Martyr from Der El Zor Desert in the Ararat Cemetery in Fresno on November 17, 2020. The grave symbolizing the lives lost in the Armenian Genocide whose names are not remembered and bodies went unburied. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)…

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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 familiar with the president’s deliberations. Biden spoke to Turkish…

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The systematic killing and deportation of more than a million Armenians by Ottoman Empire forces in the early 20th century was “genocide,” the United States formally declared on Saturday, as President Joe Biden used that precise word after the White House had avoided it for decades…

Journalist Uzay Bulut upholds truth and justice for the oppressed minorities in her homeland of ... Turkey by defying the autocratic government. Uzay Bulut Today U.S. President, Joe Biden formally recognized the massacre of Armenians by the Turkish Ottoman Empire during WWI as an act of genocide, as Armenians worldwide…

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April 24 is a day of profound sorrow for ethnic Armenians everywhere, marking the date in 1915 when officials of the Ottoman Empire, the forerunner of present-day Turkey, rounded up and killed hundreds of Armenian community leaders in what is now Istanbul, then called Constantinople. That began a cascade of…

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on his plan to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan, at the White House, Washington, U.S., April 14, 2021. Andrew Harnik/Pool via REUTERS U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to formally recognize the massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War One as…