Support U.S. policy on Turkish-Armenian reconciliation, which includes a Joint Historic Commission to study whether genocide occurred. More than 4 million Turks and 600,000 Armenians perished or were displaced during WWI. Since WWI, there have been the Scandinavian, Indian, Malta, and Istanbul tribunals, none of which found anyone guilty of genocide. The UN has thrice refused to apply the term to these events. Since 1915, six Congressional resolutions have passed, referring to massacres, not genocide, while seven have failed due to mischaracterizing the events as genocide. Recently, the Supreme Court backed a 9th Circuit decision finding unconstitutional a California law that declared the Armenian case as genocide. More recently, the European Court of Human Rights confirmed there is no sc
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