article_snippet.sent: Obama will once again stop short of calling the 1915 massacre of Armenians a genocide, prompting anger and disappointment from those who have been pushing Obama to use the politically fraught term.
article_snippet.sent: As a candidate for president in 2008, Obama promised to use the politically fraught term to describe the mass murder if elected but has not followed through despite calls from the most famous Armenian-American, Kim Kardashian, and the Pope for the world to recognize the killings as a genocide.
article_snippet.sent: But the White House still refuses to call the mass killings of ethnic Armenians a 'genocide' for fear of offending ally Turkey .
article_snippet.sent: As a senator and presidential candidate, Obama did describe the mass killings of ethnic Armenians as genocide.
article_snippet.sent: This cannot be squared with a policy of complicity in genocide denial by the president or Congress.'
article_snippet.sent: Maybe none of those other genocides would have happened if more nations had condemned the 1915 Armenian Genocide, when 1.5 million Armenians were massacred.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Obama refused to call the mass killings a 'genocide' in  official statement despite promising as a presidential candidate that he would .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Turkish officials furiously deny there was a genocide, and Obama has shied away from offending the close U.S. ally .
  