BATTLE OVER ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BEING FOUGHT ON U.S. SOIL
By Lilly Fowler

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March 1 2010

"60 Minutes" aired a segment Sunday night on the Armenian genocide
of 1915 that is worth watching. It’s not a subject that gets a lot
of media attention and thus, not one a lot of people know about.

Ottoman Turks deported and killed Christian Armenians, a minority in
the predominately Muslim region. Moreover, historians argue that the
genocide served as an example to Hitler. Turkey, however, has long
said that what happened during World War I under the Ottoman Empire
does not constitute genocide.

Today, Congress is debating whether the U.S. government should
officially recognize the Armenian genocide. It’s something they’ve
argued about before, and it’s an issue President Obama himself has
taken up, but one that has been left unresolved because of a fear of
damaging U.S./Turkey relations.