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What it means for US to recognise massacre of Armenians as genocide
Washington: The massacre of as many as 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I is commemorated each year on April 24. Armenians refer to the mass killings as the Armenian genocide - a term that Turkey rejects and which the United States until now has refrained from using. That could change Saturday, when President Joe Biden is expected to recognise it as a “genocide” in an annual Remembrance Day declaration. Here’s what that could mean. Why does Turkey oppose the term ‘genocide’? The 1948 United Nations convention on genocide defines it as the crime of acting “to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.” Historians estimate that aro

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