article_snippet.sent: It’s very disappointing Obama hasn’t used It as Obama Tricky language: Obama sent an administration official to Armenia to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1915 massacre by Ottoman Turks.
article_snippet.sent: But Obama refused 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: But he has never used that description since taking office, mainly out of deference to Turkey, a key U.S. partner.
article_snippet.sent: The White House said U.S. officials pledged to Armenian-American leaders that U.S. would use last week's 100th anniversary of the mass killings of ethnic Armenians 'to urge a full, frank and just acknowledgement of the facts,' but a statement about the meeting did not include the word 'genocide.'
article_snippet.sent: Obama's surrender to Turkey represents a national disgrace,' Armenian National Committee of America Chairman (ANCA)
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 .
  