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.