Mr. President. last week. we paused in remembrance of the Armenian genocide. which was carried out by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923. Nearly 2 million Armenians were deported. and approximately 1.5 million of those deported were killed. It is imperative that we recognize the horrific acts carried out against the Armenian people as genocide and I will continue to stand with the Armenian American community in calling for the Government of Turkey to acknowledge it as such. The occurrence of the Armenian genocide is a widely documented fact supported by an overwhelming collection of historical evidence. I was deeply disturbed 2 years ago when the U.S.
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