Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is very angry at President Biden for declaring Ottoman Turkey guilty of genocide of Armenians during World War I. He says it has caused a "deep wound" in this key relationship between two NATO allies. And all this over something that happened more than a century ago. Does Erdogan have a point?
An interesting symmetry with the US, where in similar fashion, attempts to reckon with our own racist past -- and present -- redounds uncomfortably upon the Founders, leading some to want to shut down the conversation altogether, or at least providing them with a handy excuse to do so.
An interesting symmetry with the US, where in similar fashion, attempts to reckon with our own racist past -- and present -- redounds uncomfortably upon the Founders, leading some to want to shut down the conversation altogether, or at least providing them with a handy excuse to do so.