{"id":137587,"date":"2021-04-26T12:46:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T12:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=191018"},"modified":"2021-04-26T12:46:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T12:46:47","slug":"biden-recognizes-armenian-genocide-of-1915-despite-decades-of-lobbying-denialism-by-turkey-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/04\/26\/biden-recognizes-armenian-genocide-of-1915-despite-decades-of-lobbying-denialism-by-turkey-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Recognizes Armenian Genocide of 1915, Despite Decades of Lobbying &amp; Denialism by Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>As President Joe Biden makes history by explicitly describing the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as a \u201cgenocide,\u201d we speak with Peter Balakian, Pulitzer Prize-winning Armenian American poet and professor at Colgate University. On April 24, 1915, the Ottoman Empire began a systematic, premeditated campaign targeting the Armenian people, an unarmed Christian minority living under Turkish rule. More than a million Armenians were exterminated through direct killing, starvation, torture and forced death marches. Another million Armenian people fled into permanent exile. \u201cIt\u2019s an important statement,\u201d responds Balakian to Biden\u2019s decision. \u201cThe plan was systematic,\u201d he says of the genocide. \u201cIt involved the implementation of parliamentary acts, military intervention, mobilization of killing squads in order to arrest and deport every Armenian family from Turkey.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/04\/26\/biden-recognizes-armenian-genocide-of-1915-despite-decades-of-lobbying-denialism-by-turkey\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As President Joe Biden makes history by explicitly describing the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as a \u201cgenocide,\u201d we speak with Peter Balakian, Pulitzer Prize-winning Armenian\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137588,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137587\/revisions\/137588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}