US President recognizes WW I era mass killings of Armenians as genocide

US President recognizes WW I era mass killings of Armenians as genocide.

On Saturday, US President Joe Biden recognized the World War I-era mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire as genocide.

According to the Voice of America, Biden’s recognition of the mass killings fulfills a campaign promise.

US President recognizes WW I era mass killings of Armenians as genocide

Specially, it came on the same day that Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day observed in Armenia and throughout the Armenian diaspora.

“Each year on this day, 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 again occurring,” Biden said in a statement.

He further said that the American people honor all those Armenians who perished in the genocide that began 106 years ago today.

U.S. ambassador summoned

Meanwhile, Turkey has rejected the U.S. President Joe Biden’s statement.

Later Saturday, Turkey’s Foreign Ministry summoned U.S. Ambassador David Satterfield to Ankara.

According to a ministry statement, Deputy Foreign Minister Sedat Onal told Satterfield that Ankara rejected Biden’s comment.

Moreover, Turkey “found it unacceptable and condemned it in the stongest terms.”

The statement further stated that it caused a “wound in ties that will be hard to repair.”

During his campaign for president last year, Biden said he would “support a resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide.

Besides, he said he would make universal human rights a top priority.”

In a letter Wednesday, a bipartisan group of 100 members of the U.S. House of Representatives urged Biden to become the first U.S. president to recognize the killings as genocide.

Furthermore, the letter stated the shameful silence of the United States Government on the historic fact of the Armenian Genocide has gone on for too long.

The HoR members emphasized that it must end.

Moreover, they urged President Biden to follow through on your commitments and speak the truth.

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