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People light candles in preparation of an Armenian Genocide commemoration ceremony in Bikfaya, Lebanon on April 23, 2021. Saturday, April 24, marks 106 years since the Ottoman Turkish forces unleashed violence that killed up to 1.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. U.S. President Joe Biden told Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄan he plans to formally recognize the Armenian Genocide.