Members of the United States of America voted on Tuesday to recognise the killing of over 1 million Armenians by the Ottoman Turks in the First World War as genocide.

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Turkey has long pushed for the US not to designate the atrocities perpetrated against the Armenians as genocide.

With hours of the historic, and highly symbolic vote, the Turkish foreign minister disparaged the vote as revenge against Turkey's military activities in northeastern Syria.

The US and Turkey have been locked in a tense diplomatic pat that has seen the head of state of the two countries trade strong words.

Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden hailed the vote saying that it honours the memory of the victims of the World War 1 atrocities.

The legislation supported by 405 and opposed by only 11 is the first time in history that the United States of America House of Representatives have voted to recognise the role of the Ottoman Turks in the mass killing of Armenians.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that the attacks on Kurds by the Turkish military were a chilling reminder of the atrocities against the Armenians.

“Recent attacks by the Turkish military against the Kurdish people are a stark reminder of the danger in our own time,” Nancy Pelosi said.