Update: Discussion about the background from April 26, 2021.
After the US Congress had already passed the Mass murder of 1,5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide, Joe Biden is now the first sitting US President to name the genocide in clear terms:
We remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever occurring again. Beginning on April 24, 1915, with the arrest of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople by Ottoman authorities, one and a half million Armenians were deported, massacred, or marched to their deaths in a campaign of extermination. (…) We affirm the history. We do this not to cast blame but to ensure that what happened is never repeated.
US President Joe Biden
Biden's predecessors, Trump and Obama, avoided using the term "genocide" out of consideration for NATO partner Türkiye. The Turkish government continues to deny the crime against humanity.
Only a few months ago, Turkey had Azerbaijan's war of aggression against Armenian-inhabited Nagorno-Karabakh massively supported.
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