President Biden To Formally Recognize The Armenian Genocide

 

CNN: Biden preparing to declare massacre of Armenians a 'genocide,' risking break with Turkey  

(CNN)President Joe Biden is preparing to declare the massacre of an estimated million or more Armenians under the Ottoman Empire a "genocide" this week, risking a potential fracture with Turkey but fulfilling a campaign pledge to finally use the word as President to describe the mass killings after a series of his predecessors stopped short. 

Two people familiar with the decision said the President was expected to make the declaration as part of an official statement on Remembrance Day, which falls on Saturday. 

Both said it was possible he would change his mind before then, and issue a statement merely recognizing the event without describing it as genocide.  

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