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Speaking at a virtual event at Foreign Press Center, Blinken also said given President Biden's widely-known views, his Saturday recognition of 1915 Armenian massacres as genocide should not have been a surprise.

The leader of Germany's Green Party, Cem Ozdemir - who initiated the debate on the Armenian massacres in the Bundestag - told a newspaper he had been sent emails saying things like: "We will find you anywhere."

U.S. officials often don’t want to “go there” with the word “genocide,” even historically — witness the continuing debate over the Armenian massacres.

For that reason, it’s a poor principle, adopted in some civilised countries, to imprison the deniers of the Holocaust or the Armenian massacres, however contemptible they might be.

The Armenian massacres were wiped from the country’s history, only to emerge for ordinary Turks in the 1970s after an Armenian terrorist campaign against Turkish diplomats.