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United States recognition of the Armenian genocide

Map of the U.S. states that recognize the Armenian Genocide (50 out of 50)

The United States' recognition of the Armenian genocide is the American formal recognition that the deportation and massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during the First World War constituted genocide. The United States recognizes the Armenian genocide through two congressional resolutions passed by both houses of the United States Congress, and by presidential announcement. The House of Representatives passed a resolution with broad support on October 29, 2019, and the Senate did the same by unanimous consent on December 12, 2019, making the recognition of the Armenian genocide part of the policy of the United States. Before 2019, there were numerous proposed resolutions in Congress to recognize the Armenian genocide, all failing to receive enough support.

On 22 April 1981, President Ronald Reagan first referred to the events as a "genocide" in a comparison to the Holocaust.[1][2] On April 24, 2021, the Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, President Joe Biden referred to the events as "genocide" in a statement released by the White House,[3][4][5] in which the President formally equated the genocide perpetrated against Armenians with atrocities on the scale of those committed in Nazi-occupied Europe.[5]

Background

Main articles: Armenian genocide, Armenia–United States relations, and Turkey–United States relations

History

Early attempts

On 22 April 1981, President Ronald Reagan referred to the events as a "genocide" in a statement about the Holocaust, saying "Like the genocide of the Armenians before it ... the lessons of the Holocaust must never be forgotten".[1][6][2]

2007 resolution

On October 10, 2007, the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs approved a resolution that would have recognized the Armenian genocide by a vote of 27–21. The resolution did not receive support from President George W. Bush, who said that the resolution's "passage would do great harm to our relations with a key ally in NATO and in the global war on terror."[7] Despite presidential opposition, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that the resolution would receive a full House vote.[8] In the days that followed, the Turkish government and lobbyists on their behalf, such as Dick Gephardt and Bob Livingston, successfully worked to get several of the resolution's co-sponsors to withdraw their support.[9] However, on October 25, the bill's supporters withdrew the bill.[10]

On October 11, 2007, regarding a proposed U.S. House resolution 106, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi said that the measure would be brought to a vote because "While that may have been a long time ago, genocide is taking place now in Darfur, it did within recent memory in Rwanda, so as long as there is genocide there is need to speak out against it ..."[11] However, later she was forced to backtrack from a pledge to bring the measure for a vote because of a waning support for this resolution, since many believe that "angering Turkey would hamper efforts in Iraq".[12] A 2015 version of the resolution had 212 co-sponsors, compared to 236 co-sponsors, which it had in early 2007.[13]

Opposition

The bill has been opposed by the Republic of Turkey, as well as the administration of former U.S. President George W. Bush. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged U.S. lawmakers to drop the resolution. She said: "I continue to believe that the passage of the ... Armenian genocide resolution would severely harm our relationships with Turkey".[14] While a candidate, U.S. President Barack Obama stated that he "stood with the Armenian American community in calling for Turkey's acknowledgment of the Armenian Genocide",[15] but his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton assured Turkey that the White House opposes the resolution.[16] Eight former U.S. secretaries of state, both Republican and Democrat, signed a petition calling for refraining from passing this resolution.[17]

Gregory Meeks, a Democratic representative from New York in the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, voted against the resolution, arguing that Congress should focus on the failings of U.S. history, such as slavery or the killings of Native Americans, before it starts condemning the histories of other countries. He said, "We have failed to do what we're asking other people to do ... We have got to clean up our own house."[18]

Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former U.S. national security adviser, stated in an interview to CNN:

As far as a resolution is concerned, I never realized that the House of Representatives was some sort of an academy of learning that passes judgment on historical events. History's full of terrible crimes, and there is no doubt that many Armenians were massacred in World War I. But whether the House of Representatives should be passing resolutions whether that should be classified as genocide or a huge massacre is I don't think any of its business. It has nothing to do with passing laws, how to run the United States. That's where the constitution created the House of Representatives for.[19]

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter also stated in an interview to CNN: "I think if I was in Congress I would not vote for it."[20]

The resolution also received negative reactions in mass media. Richmond Times-Dispatch columnist expressed his surprise that "a Congress that has historically lacked the spine or heart to tackle the nation's ugliest legacies in a meaningful way is censuring Turkey". The newspaper quotes Robert J. Miller, a professor at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Ore., who called it "unbelievable" that Congress is pointing fingers elsewhere while ignoring a U.S. history of black enslavement and the destruction and displacement of Indians.[21]

Turkish ambassador Nabi Şensoy stated: "[genocide] is the greatest accusation of all against humanity ... You cannot expect any nation to accept that kind of labeling."[citation needed] According to the Washington Post, to defeat the initiative for the resolution, the Turkish government "is spending more than $300,000 a month on communications specialists and high-powered lobbyists, including former congressman Bob Livingston".[22] Turkish politician Gündüz Aktan realized that even the opponents of the resolution recognized the fact of the genocide, which he found "unbearable".[23]

Support

According to Newsweek:

The measure passed despite a lobbying blitz from the Turkish government, which hired an army of K Street lobbyists to fight it. The team included former House majority leader Dick Gephardt, who as a congressman had cosponsored genocide resolutions but switched sides in March when his firm signed a $1.2 million-a-year contract to represent the Turks. The Armenian push was also boosted by campaign contributions: Annie Totah, co-chair of the Armenian American Political Action Committee, told NEWSWEEK she has raised "hundreds of thousands of dollars" for Democratic candidates and recently joined Hillary Clinton's finance committee. (Clinton is a cosponsor of the resolution in the Senate.)[24]

"The Armenian Genocide resolution is a proper test for American democracy. It will uncover priorities of the United States – good relations with Turkey or historical truth", Russian State Duma member, Konstantin Zatulin told a news conference in Yerevan on 21 October 2007.[25]

Previous presidents

While campaigning to become president in 2008, Barack Obama promised to recognize the Armenian genocide.[26] However, Obama failed to describe the 1915 events as a genocide in either his first or second term as president.[27]

2019 congressional recognition

On April 8, 2019, Representatives Adam Schiff and Gus Bilirakis introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives, alongside other Democratic and Republican representatives, that would make it the policy of the United States to recognize the Armenian genocide, reject its denial, and educate the public on the genocide.[28] The next day, Senators Bob Menendez and Ted Cruz introduced a similar resolution in the Senate, with 14 other co-sponsors, including Democratic leader Chuck Schumer.[29] On October 29, 2019, the House of Representatives voted 405–11 to recognize the Armenian genocide.[30] A few months later, on December 12, the Senate passed a similar resolution by unanimous consent.[31] Despite congressional recognition, the Donald Trump administration rejected the resolutions, with U.S. State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus saying, "The position of the administration has not changed."[32]

House of Representatives vote – October 29, 2019[30]
Party Votes for Votes against Present Not voting
Democratic (234) 226 –
2
6
Republican (197) 178
11
1
7
Independent (1)
1
 – – –
Total (432) 405 11 3 13

Presidential announcement

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On April 24, 2021, Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, President Joe Biden declared that the United States considers the events "genocide" in a statement released by the White House,[3][4][5] in which the president formally equated the genocide perpetrated against Armenians with atrocities on the scale of those committed in Nazi-occupied Europe.[5]

Mississippi recognition

In March 2022, Mississippi became the 50th and final U.S. state to formally recognize the Armenian genocide following a statement by Governor Tate Reeves.[33]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Gladstone, Rick (2021-04-23). "The Armenian Genocide, in History and Politics: What to Know". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-04-25.
  2. ^ a b "Turkey Summons U.S. Envoy After Biden's 'Genocide' Statement". Bloomberg.com. 2021-04-23. Retrieved 2021-04-25.
  3. ^ a b "Statement by President Joe Biden on Armenian Remembrance Day". The White House. 2021-04-24. Retrieved 2021-04-24.
  4. ^ a b Liptak, Kevin (April 24, 2021). "Biden officially recognizes the massacre of Armenians in World War I as a genocide". CNN. Retrieved April 24, 2021.
  5. ^ a b c d Roache, Madeline (27 April 2021). Felsenthal, Edward (ed.). "What Biden's Recognition of Armenian Genocide Means to Armenian-Americans". Time. New York City. Archived from the original on 27 April 2021. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  6. ^ "Ronald Reagan". www.armenian-genocide.org. Retrieved 2021-04-25.
  7. ^ Zakaria, Tabassum; Cornwell, Susan (October 10, 2007). "House panel OKs Armenian genocide resolution". Washington, D.C.: Reuters. Archived from the original on February 23, 2017. Retrieved April 23, 2021.
  8. ^ Robinson, Dan (October 11, 2007). "US House Speaker: Armenian Genocide Measure Will Go Forward". VOA News. Archived from the original on October 12, 2007. Retrieved April 23, 2021.
  9. ^ Simon, Richard (October 17, 2021). "Genocide resolution's support starts to fade". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on March 7, 2021. Retrieved April 23, 2021.
  10. ^ Hulse, Carl (October 25, 2007). "U.S. and Turkey Thwart Armenian Genocide Bill". The New York Times. Washington, D.C. Archived from the original on March 8, 2021. Retrieved April 23, 2021.
  11. ^ "US House Speaker: Armenian Genocide Measure Will Go Forward". Archived from the original on 2007-10-12. Retrieved 2007-10-11.
  12. ^ The Wall Street Journal. How Turkey Could Undermine Iraq.
  13. ^ "H.Res.106 - Affirmation of the United States Record on the Armenian Genocide Resolution". Retrieved 2015-03-10.
  14. ^ Forbes.com. Rice urges US Congress to drop Armenia 'genocide' Bill
  15. ^ "Barack Obama on the Importance of US-Armenia Relations". BarackObama.com. 2008-01-19. Archived from the original on 2009-02-20. Retrieved 2009-06-02.
  16. ^ "Turkey presses US to stop 'genocide' resolution". 29 March 2010.
  17. ^ Times Online. Stirring up the past, jeopardising the future
  18. ^ House panel OKs Armenian genocide resolution
  19. ^ CNN late edition with Wolf Blitzer, aired October 14, 2007 - 11:00 ET
  20. ^ Brian Knowlton. "U.S. House speaker vows debate on Armenian genocide resolution", International Herald Tribune, Sunday, October 14, 2007
  21. ^ Richmond Times-Dispatch. Apologies needed for U.S. wrongs. Monday, Oct 22, 2007.
  22. ^ White House And Turkey Fight Bill On Armenia: Genocide Label for WWI-Era Killings Has House Support, By Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, October 10, 2007
  23. ^ Mamigonian, Marc A. (2015). "Academic Denial of the Armenian Genocide in American Scholarship: Denialism as Manufactured Controversy". Genocide Studies International. 9 (1): 61–82. doi:10.3138/gsi.9.1.04. S2CID 154623321. In 2007, after the House Foreign Relations Committee voted on another resolution, the late Turkish commentator, diplomat, and member of parliament Gündüz Aktan understood that even those "supporting the Turkish case . . . said loud and clear that the events of 1915 amounted to genocide," and only "because of the strategic importance of Turkey, because of the national interest of the US, they are voting no." For Aktan, this realization was "unbearable."
  24. ^ Newsweek. A Fight Over an Ugly Past.
  25. ^ Константин Затулин: Планы Турции по вторжению в Ирак - "циничный, но грамотный блеф" (in Russian)
  26. ^ Obama, Barack (January 19, 2008). "Barack Obama on the Importance of US-Armenia Relations". Archived from the original on February 20, 2009. Retrieved April 23, 2021.
  27. ^ "Despite Campaign Vow, Obama Declines to Call Massacre of Armenians 'Genocide'". The New York Times. Washington, D.C. April 22, 2016. Archived from the original on March 23, 2021. Retrieved April 23, 2021.
  28. ^ "Schiff, Bilirakis Introduce Armenian Genocide Resolution". Asbarez. April 8, 2019. Archived from the original on January 17, 2021. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
  29. ^ "Menendez, Cruz Introduce U.S. Senate Armenian Genocide Resolution". Asbarez. April 9, 2019. Archived from the original on October 30, 2020. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
  30. ^ a b "Roll Call 591". Clerk of the United States House of Representatives. October 29, 2019. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
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