President Biden is the first sitting U.S. president in decades to formally call the mass slaughter of Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks more than a century ago a “genocide.”
We get perspective from Ara Sanjian, an associate professor of history at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and the director of the university’s Armenian Research Center.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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