US media reported that US President Joe Biden is preparing to acknowledge the massacres of Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman forces, which will exacerbate the US-Turkish tension.
In a move expected to exacerbate tension with its NATO ally Turkey, which strongly rejects this designation, Joe Biden is preparing to recognize the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians during World War I at the hands of the Ottoman Empire as a "genocide."
The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal reported that Biden will declare the massacres classified as "genocide" on Saturday, April 24, marking the 106th anniversary of the mass killings that began in 1915, when the Ottoman Empire was fighting Tsarist Russia during World War I. The region that is now Armenia.
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