The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to formally
recognize and denounce the Armenian genocide as a matter of US foreign
policy, a symbol of Armenian expatriates made possible by a new stream of
bipartisan anger in Turkey.
The House of Representatives, dominated by Democrats, voted 405 to 11 on the
resolution, which affirms that US policy, which considers the killing of 1.5
million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923 genocide.
The US House of Representatives, overwhelmingly approved a law to impose
sanctions on Turkey for its attack in northern Syria.
Many countries and nearly all US states officially recognize the killings as
genocide. But the US Congress has resisted pressure in recent years by
activists out of a desire not to inflame tensions with a Nato ally. Support
for a resolution grew, particularly among Democrats, after Trump enabled the
Turkish offensive against the Kurdish groups.
The US had previously allied with Syrian Kurdish forces against militants of
the Islamic State group. The Turkish offensive left scores of Kurdish
fighters and civilians dead and displaced hundreds of thousands more.
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