Showing posts with label Meds Yeghern. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Meds Yeghern. Show all posts

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Obama terms events of 1915 "Meds Yeghern" (Great Calamity)

WASHINGTON, D.C. -U.S. President Barack Obama described events of 1915 involving Armenians within the Ottoman Empire as “Meds Yeghern,” an Armenian term meaning “great calamity” in a statement released on Thursday.
In using the term, Obama again refrained, as he did last year, from describing the events as “genocide,” which he did during his first presidential campaign.

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