FACT CHECK: Turkish Defense Minister Distorts History of What Biden Called Armenian 'Genocide'

Описание: In an article published by Real Clear Defense, Turkey’s top defense official Hulisi Akar argues that the mass killing and deportation of ethnic Armenians in the early 20th century Ottoman Empire was not an act of genocide.

Akar’s article was posted on April 21, three days before Armenian Remembrance Day was marked on April 24 and before Joe Biden became the first U.S. president to use the phrase “Armenian genocide” in an official statement.

“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,” Biden said.

According to Reuters, Biden told the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on April 23, that he “intends to recognize” the massacres of Ottoman Armenians as genocide in his Remembrance Day statement.

Turkey, officially a U.S. ally and member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, does not recognize the Armenian genocide, and Erdogan responded in a nationally broadcast TV speech on April 26, that Biden had taken a “wrong step,” and that his comments were “groundless and unfair.”

In the past, Erdogan has denounced the accusation of genocide during World War I as “slander” against his country.

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