News Alert: Biden officially recognizes the massacre of Armenians in World War I as a genocide

News Alert: Biden officially recognizes the massacre of Armenians in World War I as a genocide

Biden officially recognizes the massacre of Armenians in World War I as a genocide
CNN

President Joe Biden on Saturday recognized the massacre of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as a genocide, risking a potential fracture with Turkey but signaling a commitment to global human rights.

In a statement marking the 106th anniversary of the massacre's start, Biden wrote, "Each year on this day, we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever again occurring."