Senator praises report that Biden will recognize Armenian Genocide
Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Robert Menendez has been a longtime supporter of recognizing the Armenian Genocide.
A leading Senate Democrat has praised reports that US President Joe Biden will recognize the Armenian Genocide.
Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey said today he was “proud” that Biden will label the killings in modern-day Turkey as such.
“After three decades of leading this fight in Congress, I am proud the U.S. government is poised to finally be able to say it without any euphemism: Genocide is genocide. Plain and simple,” he wrote in a press release.
The Armenian Genocide refers to the systematic killings and ethnic cleansing of around one million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire from 1915-1917. There were also killings of Syriac, Assyrian and Greek Christians in the area at the time. The Republic of Turkey, which succeeded the Ottoman Empire, acknowledges there were deaths, but disputes that the events constituted a genocide.
