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Biden faces calls on pledge to recognize Armenian genocide

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WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden is facing calls to recognize the Armenian genocide of more than a century ago, something he pledged to do as a candidate but that could further complicate an already tense relationship with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

A bipartisan group of more than 100 House members on Wednesday signed a letter to Biden calling on him to become the first U.S.

president to formally recognize the World War I-era systematic killing and deportation of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire from modern-day Turkey.

The letter, led by Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California, was sent days before Saturday's annual Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day commemoration.

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