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Apr 24, 2021, 6 tweets

#BREAKING Biden in statement recognizes Armenian genocide

#BREAKING Turkey's Erdogan says Armenia genocide debate 'politicised by third parties'

#BREAKING Turkey 'will not take lessons from anyone on our history': foreign minister

#BREAKING Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan hails US recognition of World War I-era Armenian genocide as 'powerful step'

#UPDATE US 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 u.afp.com/Udtt

Map of the Ottoman Empire detailing the deportation and mass killings of Armenians in 1915-1917

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