Donald Trump falls in line with past administrations by not using the word “genocide” to refer to Armenian killings in Ottoman Turkey
U.S. president Donald Trump on Monday marked the 102nd anniversary of the Armenian genocide with a statement in which he avoided calling the elimination of 1.5 million Armenians by the government of Ottoman Turkey as ‘genocide’ using instead the Armenian phrase ‘Medz Yeghern” and describing the massacre as “one of the worst mass atrocities of the 20th century.”