Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is calling on President Biden to reverse his decision to publicly acknowledge that the massacre of as many as 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire (modern day Turkey) during World War I was an act of genocide, the CBS News website reports today (April 27, 2021).
Erdogan said yesterday that Biden took the wrong step and urged the two countries to look toward the future. The fact is U.S.-Turkey relations are now the worst they've been in decades, as Turkey angered the U,S, by purchasing several special weapons from Russia earlier this year.
Biden is the first U.S. President to acknowledge the mass killing by the Ottoman Empire was an act of ethnic cleansing, as Turkey was able to pressure previous presidents not to agree to the genocide. Turkey has continued to deny the genocide to the present day.
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