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Associated Press: Trump recalls killing of Armenians, doesn’t call it genocide

By Associated Press.
US President Donald Trump, alongside US Vice President Mike Pence, speaks about signing executive orders on trade policies in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, March 31, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB
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President Donald Trump is recalling the death and suffering of more than 1 million Armenians during the final years of the Ottoman Empire, without describing it as genocide.

Such a declaration would anger Turkey, whose cooperation Trump seeks in Syria.

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