News Biden recognizes as ‘genocide’ the killing of 1.5M Armenians by Ottoman Turks April 24, 2021April 25, 2021 Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY Comments Off on Biden recognizes as ‘genocide’ the killing of 1.5M Armenians by Ottoman Turks Earlier this week, Turkey's foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Joe Biden would "harm ties" if he made the genocide declaration.