"WASHINGTON (AP) -- House sponsors of a resolution that would label as genocide the 1915 killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks have asked Speaker Nancy Pelosi to delay a vote on the measure because they feared it would fail.
Support for the resolution deteriorated this month, after Turkey recalled its U.S. ambassador in protest and several lawmakers said they feared it would cripple U.S.-Turkey relations.
"We believe that a large majority of our colleagues want to support a resolution recognizing the genocide on the House floor and they will do so, provided the timing is more favorable," the lawmakers told Pelosi in a letter on Wednesday."
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