Joe Biden has decided to recognize the killing of 1.5 million Armenians during the period of the First World War by the Ottoman Empire as genocide. The New York Times writes it, specifying that the announcement is expected for Saturday, the 106th anniversary of the mass murder.
Biden will be the first US president to do so, after at least thirty countries have taken similar steps. The move is intended to ignite tensions with Turkey, a NATO ally, but Biden has put his commitment to human rights first.
After all, Biden himself, a year ago, when he was still a presidential candidate, had commemorated on Twitter the victims of what he had called the “Armenian genocide” and had pledged – if elected president – to support a resolution that recognizes the genocide and make universal human rights a top priority. “
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