US President Joe Biden said today that the Ottoman-era 1915 massacre of Armenians was a genocide, a historic statement that is expected to infuriate Turkey and possibly further strain relations between the two NATO allies.
This largely symbolic move, moving away from the White House’s carefully calibrated language for decades, is likely to be celebrated by the Armenian diaspora in the United States, but comes at a time when Ankara and Washington have deep political disagreements over many issues.
Source: ANA-MPA