Kudos to President Biden for being the first U.S. President to muster the courage to state the obvious, and refer to the Armenian genocide as a genocide.
Between 1915 and 1922, over 50% of the Armenian population of Turkey was killed by Ottoman / Turkish forces, with most of the rest deported from their homeland.
Until the Holocaust of European Jews in the Second World War, this was the worst wholesale ethnic slaughter in the modern western history. Like European Jews, Armenians still carry the trauma of this crime. Unlike European Jews, Armenians have received neither an apology, nor even an admission from Turkey that this horrible chapter occurred. The fear of losing Turkey as an ally has pushed our nation to be complicit in this conspiracy of silence until now. President Biden’s official acknowledgement of these crimes is way overdue, but has been welcomed.
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