The United States Recognition of the Armenian Genocide by Turkey

After a long campaign by supporters, the United States finally recognized the Armenian Genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire in 1915-1916. The Turks massacred hundreds of thousands of ethnic Armenians. The Islamist Turkish Government falsely denies the genocide, which was one of the earliest mass genocides in world history. Armenians and most Greeks, who are both Christians, were forcibly removed from Turkey after the First World War when Turkey succeeded the Ottoman Empire, which was broken up after its defeat as one of the Central Powers. International recognition of genocide, which is the killing of a people, is essential to preventing it again.