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2020 candidates line up behind Armenian genocide bill as US-Turkey relations plummet

Strained relations between the NATO allies has given advocates hope the United States will finally call the Ottoman Empire’s mass slaughter of Christians in World War I a genocide.

Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) arrives to speak at the North America's Building Trades Unions (NABTU) 2019 legislative conference in Washington, U.S., April 10, 2019. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas - RC1AB0F71E60
Democratic US presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., arrives to speak at the North America's Building Trades Unions 2019 legislative conference in Washington, US, April 10, 2019. — REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

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