Biden first US President to acknowledge deaths of Armenian Christians as genocide: Why the Armenian Genocide matters today
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 27 April 2021
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President Joe Biden made history this past weekend when he became the first sitting US president to recognize the massacre of as many as 1.5 million Armenian Christians by the Ottoman Empire—present-day Turkey—in the early twentieth century as a genocide. In The Daily Article for April 27, 2021, Ryan Denison asks, “Why should President Biden's decision to officially acknowledge the genocide as a genocide matter to each of us?”
Written by Ryan Denison. Narrated by Chris Nichter.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-changing Christians. |
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| 0:19.3 | President Joe Biden made history this past weekend. When he became the first sitting U.S. President Joe Biden made history this past weekend when he became the first sitting |
| 0:24.2 | U.S. president to recognize the massacre of as many as 1.5 million Armenian Christians by the Ottoman |
| 0:31.3 | Empire, present-day Turkey, in the early 20th century as a genocide. It's taken this long for the United States to officially |
| 0:39.5 | describe horrific slaughter with accurate terminology, because Turkey has long been seen as an important |
| 0:45.6 | ally in the Middle East, and they are predictably hesitant to accept that classification. That the |
| 0:51.8 | genocide is relatively unknown compared to those that occurred in the Soviet |
| 0:56.1 | Union and Nazi Germany, both of which seemed to be working from the Ottoman playbook, |
| 1:01.0 | has helped give cover to minimize the gravity of what actually occurred. |
| 1:06.0 | But as noted conservative Ben Shapiro stated in praising Biden for the decision, rectifying the omission |
| 1:12.9 | has been long overdue. To understand why this decision is important for us today, though, |
| 1:19.1 | we must first know a bit more about what happened and why the Ottomans systematically killed so |
| 1:24.8 | many Armenians. |
| 1:34.2 | The Armenian Genocide refers to a period starting around April 1915, when the Ottoman Empire began to arrest and deport the Armenian population within its borders |
| 1:39.5 | to concentration camps in the desert. But many never made it that far. Instead, the Ottoman civil |
| 1:46.3 | and military officials oversaw the systematic mass murder of somewhere between 600,000 to |
| 1:52.6 | well over 1 million Armenian Christians across the journey. To understand why the Armenians |
| 1:58.2 | were targeted, however, requires going back several centuries. |
| 2:02.7 | The Armenians maintained a relative level of independence within the region |
| 2:06.8 | until the Ottoman Empire conquered them during the 15th and 16th centuries, |
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