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Obama won't call it the Armenian 'genocide' - CNN.com

Obama won't call it Armenian 'genocide' on 100th anniversary of atrocity

Jim Acosta and Kevin Liptak, CNN

Updated 9:08 PM ET, Tue April 21, 2015

Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama, wary of damaging relations with Turkey amid growing unrest in the Middle East, won't use the 100th anniversary of the massacre of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire to declare the brutal episode a genocide.

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