{"id":104095,"date":"2021-04-29T12:52:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T07:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=104095"},"modified":"2021-05-29T12:52:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T07:22:53","slug":"recognition-of-the-armenian-genocide-by-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/recognition-of-the-armenian-genocide-by-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Source &#8211; <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=GUN8HE7PS.1&amp;imageview=0\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Syllabus \u2013 GS 2 &#8211; \u00a0<\/strong>Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and\/or affecting India\u2019s interests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Synopsis \u2013 <\/strong>US president officially recognized the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915-16 as an act of genocide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Introduction-<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>On April 24, 2021, the\u00a0Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, US <\/strong>President\u00a0Joe Biden\u00a0referred to the events as genocide.<\/li>\n<li>The US president&#8217;s acknowledgment would exacerbate the already deteriorating relationship between the US and Turkey.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>History of Armenian Genocide-<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>After First world-war defeat, the Ottoman Turks blamed the Armenians living on the outskirts of the collapsing empire for the defeat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Start of the Armenian Genocide<\/strong>&#8211; On\u00a0<strong>24th\u00a0April, 1915<\/strong>, Ottoman Turks arrested and executed thousands of Armenian soldiers, public intellectuals. Moreover Armenians were forcefully relocated to Syrian Desert from their homes in eastern Anatolia (modern-day Turkey).<\/li>\n<li>The total estimated number of Armenians killed during 1914-1916 at over 1.5 million, or nearly 90% of the Armenians who were living in the Ottoman Empire.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>What is Turkey\u2019s response to US acknowledgment?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkey has admitted that massacres were committed against Armenians, but denies it was genocide and called US president to correct the mistake of recognition as genocide.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Turkey has claimed that the US does not have a legal basis for its claims and are not backed up by any evidence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Other Issues in between the US and Turkey- <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US-Turkey relationship has been tensed on a number of issues-<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Over U.S. based<\/strong> <strong>Islamic preacher Fethullah G\u00fclen<\/strong> <strong>\u2013 <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Turkey demands that US extradite G\u00fclen, the mastermind\u00a0behind a failed coup attempt against the Turkish government, according to Turkey.<\/li>\n<li>However, the US refused to extradite G\u00fclen due to a lack of evidence linking him to the coup.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Over S-400 Missile defence &#8211; \u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Despite resistance from the US, Turkey&#8217;s decision to purchase the S-400 missile defence system from Russia led American leaders to exclude Turkey from the F-35 fighter jet training programme and place sanctions on their ally.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Way forward-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkey should not let affect its relations with the United States and should instead concentrate on its foreign policy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkey should acknowledge the atrocities and not allow its past to sabotage its current interest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source &#8211; The Hindu Syllabus \u2013 GS 2 &#8211; \u00a0Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and\/or affecting India\u2019s interests. Synopsis \u2013 US president officially recognized the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915-16 as an act of genocide. Introduction- On April 24, 2021, the\u00a0Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, US President\u00a0Joe Biden\u00a0referred&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/recognition-of-the-armenian-genocide-by-the-us\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the US<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700788503,"cached_date":1704599117},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}