FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TURKEY: “President Trump issued a statement that studiously avoided the term ‘genocide’ as he marked the 102nd anniversary of the Armenian genocide on Monday [4-24-17], following past presidents’ decisions that it’s more important to avoid offending Turkey than support aggrieved Armenian Americans.
‘Beginning in 1915, one and a half million Armenians were deported, massacred, or marched to their deaths in the final years of the Ottoman Empire,’ Trump said in a Monday statement. ‘I join the Armenian community in America and around the world in mourning the loss of innocent lives and the suffering endured by so many.’
American presidents have avoided using the term ‘genocide’ for decades when referring to an event that scholars widely consider a genocide in order to avoid infuriating Turkey, a key strategic ally in the Muslim world. That’s infuriated Armenian Americans who view that decision as white-washing history for political convenience.”
-Cameron Joseph, “President Trump avoids calling mass killing of Armenians a ‘genocide’,” New York Daily News, April 24, 2017 4:32pm