As a Greek Orthodox, I would like to thank the Catholic League for acknowledging President Biden’s official recognition of the Armenian Genocide. I also appreciate your references in the statement to the Greeks and the Assyrians who were targeted for extermination by the Turks. Your statement is entirely correct when it asserts that the genocide was based on the faith of the Armenians, as well as of the Greeks and Assyrians.
The book published in 2019 by Israeli historians Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi called “The Thirty Year Genocide” makes the point that the slaughter of these Christian communities was based on their faith. The subsequent Turkish victory in 1922 over the Greek Army and the conquest of the newly established Republic of Armenia led to the further genocide of those Christian populations. It is refreshing to see that the victims of genocide are finally being recognized and commemorated.
Thank you for your statement
Theodore G. Karakostas
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Well done, Catholic League.