Erdogan (and its ally Azerbaijan) has threatened to take revenge on the United States and his once allies for recognising the Armenian Genocide. He has started to make his move.
When the United States President, Joe Biden, officially announced his recognition of the Armenian Genocide, the Turkish President Erdogan has been infiltrated to his dismay. Like the majority of Turkish nationals, many are strong nationalists, he has rejected the genocide accusation. Yet in the past, only a minority of countries in the world would do this recognition, Uruguay and Cyprus spearheaded. Once the Cold War ended, however, the world shifted to a multipolar order, and the Armenian Genocide began to be remembered widespread. But the United States was, until 2019, not one of the countries that acknowledged the tragedy. With Erdogan's relationship with the West worsened, the United States had seized the opportunity. The American Congress in 2019 made a shocking move, officially denounced the Ottoman massacre of Armenians in 1915 as a genocide. The news from Washington D.C. delivered to the world with surprise because the United States never tried to recognise this before. Erd...