U.S. President Barack Obama again declined to describe the 1915 massacres of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey as genocide as he commemorated "one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century" late on Saturday.
As was the case in his previous April 24 statements, Obama used instead the Armenian phrase Meds Yeghern, or Great Calamity, to mark the 96th anniversary of the start of the mass killings and deportations.
“In 1915, 1.5 million Armenians were massacred or marched to their death in the final days of the Ottoman Empire,” he said in his latest statement on what is officially marked as Armenian Remembrance Day in the United States.
Armenian News
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