Kim Kardashian thanks Joe Biden for recognising mass killings in Armenia as genocide

“After more than a century of fighting for truth and acknowledgement, today the Armenian people received the recognition we have all been hoping and praying for, with President Biden declaring the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 a genocide,” she wrote on Twitter.

Biden is the first president to formally recognise the killings as genocide, a term that previous administrations avoided so as to not anger the nation of Turkey, which emerged from the Ottoman Empire.

In 2015, Kardashian – whose late father, Robert Kardashian, was Armenian-American – penned a Time essay urging then-president Barack Obama to acknowledge the killings as genocide.

“I’m so proud of my heritage, proud of the Armenian communities and grateful to President Biden for granting every Armenian this day and this truth,” she added in her Saturday statement.

“Although nothing will ever bring back the Armenians who were murdered, I will continue to honour and remember those we lost every year on this day, but now with the hope that after recognising the genocide we will never again allow atrocities of the past to be repeated,” she added.