If you follow the news closely, you may have noticed that on April 24, “Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day,” President Joe Biden recognized the starving and slaughtering of more than 1 million Armenians in 1915 in what was known as the Ottoman Empire, or present-day Turkey.

Biden became the first U.S. president to formally equate the violence against Armenians with atrocities on the scale of those committed in Nazi-occupied Europe.


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