Biden first US President to acknowledge deaths of Armenian Christians as genocide: Why the Armenian Genocide matters today
President Joe Biden made history this past weekend when he became the first sitting US president to recognize the massacre of as many as 1.5 million Armenian Christians by the Ottoman Empire—present-day Turkey—in the early twentieth century as a genocide. In The Daily Article for April 27, 2021, Ryan Denison asks, “Why should President Biden's decision to officially acknowledge the genocide as a genocide matter to each of us?”
Written by Ryan Denison. Narrated by Chris Nichter.
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