The word “genocide” was not used before World War II, but what the Turks did to the Armenians in 1915 and 1916 certainly qualifies, and President Biden just declared it so. For years American politicians did not want to insult our ally Turkey, so the U.S. refrained from talking about what Turkey had done.
What Turkey did was kill or drive out or scatter over a million Armenians, including women and children. Turkey to this day continues to deny it happened. I believe the first step to righting historic wrongs is to admit them. To get past and begin to heal the Wounded Knee Massacre or the Tulsa Massacre of 1921, you first must admit to historical truths. Turkey refuses to do this, and the issue of the Armenian genocide continues to fester.
Good for Biden for breaking the American silence.
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