President Joe Biden is commemorating the 107th anniversary of the start of what he calls “the Armenian genocide.”
In 1915, Ottoman officials arrested Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople, now Istanbul. The Biden statement notes that this event on April 24 marked the beginning of the genocide.
Fulfilling a campaign promise, Biden used the term “genocide” for the first time during last year's anniversary. Past White Houses had avoided that word for decades out of a concern that Turkey — a NATO member — could be offended. Turkish officials were angered by Biden's declaration a year ago, with the foreign ministry issuing a statement that said, “We reject and denounce in the strongest terms the statement of the President of the US regarding the events of 1915 made under the pressure of radical Armenian circles and anti-Turkey groups."
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