Pressure mounts for Biden to live up to promise to recognize Armenian genocide

David Nargizian 2021
KTLA Los Angeles
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by: Ellina Abovian

Posted: Apr 21, 2021 / 01:06 PM PDT / Updated: Apr 21, 2021 / 01:24 PM PDT

Pressure is growing on President Joe Biden to officially recognize the 1915 mass killings of some 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire as a genocide, a promise he made as a presidential candidate but one which Turkey says will harm ties to the U.S. Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, marked annually by the large Los Angeles-area Armenian community, is April 24. Ellina Abovian reports for the KTLA 5 News at Noon on . 

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