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| Obama On Armenian Genocide Day - Doesn't use word "genocide" |
| 2009-04-24 |
| WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama avoided the word "genocide" in a statement he just released recalling the World War I-era killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks. Obama is marking the memory of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians killed in Turkey, and the choice of his exact words was being watched closely. As a candidate, Obama pledged to recognize the killings as genocide. In his statement Friday, the president referred to "one of the greatest atrocities of the 20th century." |
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