{"id":5294,"date":"2021-06-03T11:48:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T11:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5294"},"modified":"2021-06-03T11:48:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T11:48:41","slug":"why-bidens-statement-recognizing-the-armenian-genocide-is-a-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5294","title":{"rendered":"Why Biden\u2019s statement recognizing the Armenian genocide is a big deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“President Joe Biden became the first US president to formally refer to<\/a> atrocities committed against Armenians as a \u201cgenocide\u201d”
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“Previous presidents have refrained from using the word \u201cgenocide\u201d in connection with the mass atrocities committed against the Armenian people in the early 20th century, and Turkey categorically denies that a genocide took place. So Biden\u2019s declaration marks a major break from precedent, and could signal an increase in tensions with Turkey, a longtime US and NATO ally.”
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“Previous presidents, including George W. Bush and Barack Obama, made similar campaign promises<\/a> to recognize the Armenian genocide, but never followed through while in office, and Bush later called on Congress<\/a> to reject such a designation. In 1981, Ronald Reagan made a passing reference to \u201cthe genocide of the Armenians\u201d during a speech<\/a> commemorating victims of the Holocaust.”  
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“other factors have already chilled the US-Turkey relationship. In December of last year, for example, shortly before Biden took office, the US imposed sanctions<\/a> on Turkey for purchasing Russian military hardware. In 2019, the US also removed<\/a> Turkey from its joint F-35 stealth fighter program over the same purchase.”  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/4\/24\/22400851\/armenian-genocide-turkey-biden-erdogan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“President Joe Biden became the first US president to formally refer to atrocities committed against Armenians as a \u201cgenocide\u201d”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Previous presidents have refrained from using the word \u201cgenocide\u201d in connection with the mass atrocities committed against the Armenian people in the early 20th century, and Turkey categorically denies that a genocide took place. So Biden\u2019s declaration marks a major break from precedent, and could signal an increase in tensions with Turkey, a longtime US and NATO ally.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Previous presidents, including George W. Bush and Barack Obama, made similar campaign promises to recognize the Armenian genocide, but never followed through while in office, and Bush later called on Congress to reject such a designation. In 1981, Ronald Reagan made a passing reference to \u201cthe genocide of the Armenians\u201d during a speech commemorating victims of the Holocaust.” <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“other factors have already chilled the US-Turkey relationship. In December of last year, for example, shortly before Biden took office, the US imposed sanctions on Turkey for purchasing Russian military hardware. In 2019, the US also removed Turkey from its joint F-35 stealth fighter program over the same purchase.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1012,390,272,355,1305,314,780,418],"class_list":["post-5294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-armenia","tag-diplomacy","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-genocide","tag-international-relations","tag-joe-biden","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5295,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5294\/revisions\/5295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}