Letter to the editor | Difference of opinion among the Allies regarding recognition of Armenian Genocide 

The United States agrees with its largest ally in the Middle East, Israel, on most global political issues—except for the Armenian issue. 

On April 22, 1981, U.S. President Ronald Reagan referred to the Armenian massacres committed by the Ottoman Turks against the Armenian people between 1915 and 1916 as a “genocide” in a comparison to the Holocaust, stating: “Like the genocide of the Armenians before it…the lessons of the Holocaust must never be forgotten.”