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Ronald Reagan was the last president to refer to killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as a genocide in his remarks on the creation of the US Holocaust Memorial Council in 1981. Was that statement controversial with Turkey at the time? Why did George HW Bush avoid the term in 1990?

by /u/Paulie_Gatto in /r/AskHistorians

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