Kim Kardashian just called on Trump to recognise the Armenian Genocide

Yesterday, Kim Kardashian West called on the US government to step forward and acknowledge the Armenian Genocide on its 103rd anniversary.

The subject might be a far cry from her usual promotional tweets and artistic nudes, but it's one which is close to her heart.

In an official KKW post, she states pride in her own Armenian heritage and fondly remembers a 2015 trip, during which she was shown the home of her ancestors.

It's not the first time Kardashian West has used her global platform to raise awareness of the genocide, which saw 1.5 million Armenians murdered by the Ottoman Empire.

Back in 2016, she responded to a full-page advert denying the genocide, which ran in the Wall Street Journal. She did so by taking out her own ad in the New York Times and describing her reasons for doing so in a powerful, incendiary blog: