"In Turkey, Obama avoids the word 'genocide'
Last year he described the deaths of up to 1.5 million ethnic Armenians before and during World War I as genocide, but today he emphasizes increasingly cordial contacts between the two nations.
By Christi Parsons and Laura King, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
5:30 AM PDT, April 6, 2009
Reporting from Ankara and Istanbul — President Barack Obama, steering a delicate course on an explosive issue here, said today that his views on the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks early in the last century had not changed, but avoided using the word "genocide" in front of his Turkish hosts."
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