""President Barack Obama on Wednesday
called the mass killings of Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Turks in 1915
"one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century," but again broke a 2008
campaign promise to label the tragedy a "genocide." Doing so would have angered
NATO ally Turkey." "The chairman of the Armenian National Committee of America,
Aram Hamparian, denounced Obama's statement, accusing the president of bowing to
Turkey's "gag rule" on the issue. "Our President's complicity in Turkey's denial
of truth and its ongoing obstruction of justice will not derail our progress
toward a truthful, fair, and comprehensive international resolution of Turkey's
still unpunished crime against the Armenian nation," Hamparian said in a
statement.""