theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/24/joe-biden-armenian-genocide-recognition

“Words cannot change or rewrite history,” the foreign minister, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, responded on Twitter. “We have nothing to learn from anybody on our own past. Political opportunism is the greatest betrayal to peace and justice. We entirely reject this statement based solely on populism.”

Basically Turkey is very angry about this because many Turks are extremely nationalistic and worship Ataturk.

Seems to be just for political purposes but respect nonetheless

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now kick the proto fascist out of nato and leave him to the wolves

You literally settle on someone elses land and you got a mob out there waiting for ya ass, azerbaijan been getting L's damn

Who cares about pissing off turkey?

Imamoglu 2023

i like this guy i’ll read up on him

About damn time

They are the only country in the Middle East that is historically a reliable ally.

What's wrong with Ataturk? 🤨

It's ok bro, nobody is perfect, people idolize ghenghis and alexander too believe it or not

israel? maybe idk

the armenian genocide happened tho right? whats wrong with acknowledging it?

Turkey does not nationally recognize it as a genocide, but as mass killings committed without systemic organized planning. Turkey's strategic importance to the US is why presidents have historically avoided the subject beforehand. Erdogan and the AKP will likely see this as a spit in the face

Well yeah except for Israel I guess.

He participated in the genocide and also Im a Muslim so I don’t fw him regardless

He didn't participate in the genocide what are you talking about...

And what does being Muslim have to do with anything

Ataturk wasn't against Muslims... he was pro-secular and against Islamists

If anyone is whatever about this, remember that no US president up until now, not even Obama, had recognized the genocide for what it was. So it is a big moment for Armenian Americans.

Only history of Anatolia I know is Alexander and WWI... gotta read up

Cant wait for the world to recognize Amercan genocides across the world.

Itl happend when they stop writing the books.

Have they even formally acknowledged and apologized for American slavery and Jim Crow and Segregation

Understand the questions being asked in this thread about Americas own crimes but make no mistake, this action is huge and morally the right thing to do

It’s one of the most diverse and rich regions in world history for sure. Also one of the most earliest settled regions