Armenian genocide

Armenian Genocide refer to the campaign of deportation and mass killing of Armenian subjects of the Ottoman Empire by the Young Turk government during World War I.
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.
Armenians charge that the campaign was a deliberate attempt to destroy the Armenian people and, thus, an act of genocide.
The Turkish government has resisted calls to recognize it as such, contending that, although atrocities took place, there was no official policy of extermination implemented against the Armenian people as a group.

U.S. President Joe Biden has recognised 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.
Mr. Biden became the first U.S. President to use the word genocide in a customary statement on the anniversary.
Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan thanked Mr. Biden for “the powerful step towards justice and historical truth”.
Starting with Uruguay in 1965, France, Germany, Russia and many others have recognised the genocide.

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