Resolution comes at delicate time in US-Turkey relationship, shortly after House votes to impose sanctions
The US House of Representatives has voted overwhelmingly to recognize the Armenian genocide of a century ago, stepping into a fraught historical debate at a particularly tense moment for the US-Turkey relationship.
The House voted 405-11 in favor of the resolution, which is not legally binding, to formally recognize the systematic killing of 1.5 million Armenians under the Ottoman Empire, modern-day Turkey, as a “genocide”.
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