President Joe Biden became the first US president to officially recognize the massacre of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as a genocide, risking a potential fracture with Turkey but signaling a commitment to global human rights. The question of whether it should be called a genocide, though, remains highly contentious around the world a century after the event. CNN’s Arwa Damon reports.
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