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						<p><p>(FILES) In this file photo taken on April 24, 2015 a girl looks on from behind a placard depicting a starving Armenian child in Marseille, southeastern France, during a commemorative gathering marking the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. US President Joe Biden on April 24, 2021, recognized the 1915 killings of Armenians by Ottoman forces as genocide, a watershed moment for descendants of the hundreds of thousands of dead as he defied decades of pressure by Turkey.<br />(BORIS HORVAT / AFP)</p></p><p class="license"><a href="/search_news/articles/14730/Biden%20recognizes%20Armenian%20genocide,%20defying%20Turkey%20in%20watershed/css/buy_prints" title="All Rights Reserved">Photo license &nbsp;<span class="license_all_rights"></span></a><a href="/search_news/articles/14730/Biden%20recognizes%20Armenian%20genocide,%20defying%20Turkey%20in%20watershed/css/buy_prints" class="buy">Purchase photo</a></p>
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		<div id="textsize"><p>(<a href="none" class="source">AFP</a>) - <b>US</b> President Joe Biden on Saturday recognized the 1915 killings of Armenians by Ottoman forces as genocide, a watershed moment for descendants of the hundreds of thousands of dead as he defied decades of pressure by Turkey.</p>
<p>Biden became the first <b>US</b> president to use the word genocide in a statement on the anniversary, a day after informing Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the decision and seeking to limit the furor from the NATO ally.</p>
<p>"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," Biden said.</p>
<p>"We affirm the history. We do this not to cast blame but to ensure that what happened is never repeated."</p>
<p>The statement is a massive victory for <b>Armenia</b> and its extensive diaspora. Starting with Uruguay in 1965, nations including France, Germany, Canada and Russia have recognized the genocide, but a <b>US</b> statement has been a paramount goal that proved elusive under previous presidents.</p>
<p>Erdogan, in a statement to the Armenian patriarch in Istanbul, said debates "should be held by historians" and not "politicized by third parties."</p>
<p>"Words cannot change or rewrite history," Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu tweeted moments after Biden's statement. "We will not take lessons from anyone on our history."</p>
<p>The Turkish foreign ministry later summoned <b>US</b> Ambassador David Satterfield to express its displeasure, noting that Biden's decision caused "a wound in relations that is difficult to repair," the Anadolu state news agency reported.</p>
<p>Explaining Biden's thinking, an administration official pointed to the Democratic president's vows to put a new priority on human rights and highlighted his outspokenness on systemic racism in the United States.</p>
<p>Across the world, "people are beginning to acknowledge and address and grapple with the painful historical facts in their own countries. It's certainly something that we are doing here in the United States," the official said.</p>
<p><strong>- A century of waiting -</strong></p>
<p>As many as 1.5 million Armenians are estimated to have been killed from 1915 to 1917 during the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, which suspected the Christian minority of conspiring with adversary Russia in World War I.</p>
<p>Armenian populations were rounded up and deported into the desert of Syria on death marches in which many were shot, poisoned or fell victim to disease, according to accounts at the time by foreign diplomats.</p>
<p><b>Turkey</b>, which emerged as a secular republic from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire, acknowledges that 300,000 Armenians may have died but strongly rejects that it was genocide, saying they perished in strife and famine in which many Turks also died.</p>
<p>Recognition has been a top priority for <b>Armenia</b> and Armenian-Americans, with calls for compensation and property restoration over what they call Meds Yeghern -- the Great Crime -- and appeals for more support against Turkish-backed neighbor Azerbaijan.</p>
<p>The Azerbaijani foreign ministry said Biden's statement "distorted the historical facts about the events of 1915" and echoed <b>Turkey</b>'s call for the killings to be "studied by historians, not politicians."</p>
<p>Azerbaijan defeated <b>Armenia</b> last year in a war over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, in which Ankara backed its ally Baku and which left <b>Armenia</b> traumatized.</p>
<p>Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan thanked Biden for his "powerful step towards justice and invaluable support to the heirs of the Armenian genocide victims."</p>
<p>In the Armenian capital Yerevan, Taline Nourian, 41, said her people have been waiting for this moment for years.</p>
<p>"We wanted it before Biden," she told AFP. "I think <b>Turkey</b> will be afraid now because all countries are going to start recognizing (the genocide)."</p>
<p>Biden, whose call to Erdogan to inform him of the genocide recognition was their first conversation since the <b>US</b> leader took office three months ago, signaled he hoped to contain the fallout.</p>
<p>They agreed in their call to meet in June on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Brussels, officials said.</p>
<p>Beyond statements and the summoning of the <b>US</b> ambassador, <b>Turkey</b> did not immediately announce any retaliatory steps -- in contrast to angry measures taken over previous Western moves to recognize the genocide.</p>
<p>Tensions have risen sharply with <b>Turkey</b> in recent years over its purchase of a major air defense system from NATO adversary Russia, and its incursions against pro-US Kurdish fighters in Syria.</p>
<p><strong>- Turbulent alliance -</strong></p>
<p>The <b>US</b> Congress in 2019 voted overwhelmingly to recognize the Armenian genocide, but the Trump administration made clear that the official <b>US</b> line had not changed.</p>
<p>Alan Makovsky, an expert on <b>Turkey</b> at the left-leaning Center for American Progress, said that the 2019 congressional resolution had "no discernible impact" on US-Turkey relations -- and paved the way for Biden to go ahead.</p>
<p>At a pro-Armenia rally in New York on Saturday, the crowd of several hundred included Aram Bowen, 33, whose great-great-grandfather was beheaded by the Ottomans during the massacres.</p>
<p>"<b>Turkey</b> is never going to recognize it as genocide," he said.</p>
<p>"So for <b>us</b> on so many levels, the closest thing to that actually becoming official worldwide, it was when the United States and the president himself acknowledged the genocide."</p>
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