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Biden recognizes mass killings against Armenians as genocide

By Haley Victory Smith
Published April 24, 2021 4:25pm ET
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Biden recognizes mass killings against Armenians as genocide
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President Joe Biden recognized the mass killings perpetrated against the Armenian people in 1915 as a genocide Saturday.

Saturday marks Armenian Remembrance Day, in which the horrors perpetrated by Ottoman Turkish forces are acknowledged. Estimates indicate that as many as 1.5 million Armenians died.

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