Baku, Azerbaijan, April 24. U.S. President
Donald Trump has once again refrained from using the term
“genocide” in his annual statement on the events of April 24, 1915,
Trend reports.
In a message published by the White House, Trump described the
events as “one of the worst disasters”, stopping short of labeling
them as “genocide”.
Throughout his presidency, Trump consistently avoided using the
term when referring to the 1915 events.
Armenia and the Armenian lobby claim that the predecessor state
of modern Türkiye, the Ottoman Empire, allegedly committed what
they call a “genocide” against Armenians living in Anatolia in
1915. Ankara has repeatedly called on Armenia to open its
historical archives and establish a joint commission to investigate
the events. To date, Armenia has not responded to Türkiye’s
proposal.