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Trump Goes Mum On 'Armenian Genocide' After Biden Recognition

Armenians take part in the annual torch march on the eve of the Genocide Remembrance Day in Yerevan (Credit: AFP)

US President Donald Trump on Thursday steered clear of describing the Ottoman Empire's World War I-era mass killings of Armenians as "genocide," a reversal from his predecessor Joe Biden.

Turkey, whose leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has forged close ties with Trump, has long denied genocide and angrily sought to block any international use of the term.

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