Alwaght-Despite his promises in 2008, Barak Obama, the president of US administration, refused to call the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks, genocide.
Obama's refusal to recognize 1915 massacre as genocide has been prompted anger and disappointment of scores of his supporters in presidential election campaign.
As estimated by historians, 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks, Turkey official reject it.
"As a candidate in January 2008, Obama had pledged to recognize the genocide and at least one of his campaign surrogates, the current US ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, recorded a nearly five-minute video at the time imploring Armenian-Americans to vote for Obama precisely because he would keep his word on the issue," the Guardian reported.
California Rep. Adam Schiff, the Democratic leader of the House Intelligence Committee, said, "I was deeply disappointed by the decision to avoid the word genocide."
"How long must the victims and their families wait before our nation has the courage to confront Turkey with the truth about the murderous past of the Ottoman Empire?" Schiff wrote in a statement.
"If not this President, who spoke so eloquently and passionately about recognition in the past, whom? If not after one hundred years, when?" he told CNN.
“Armenian genocide is not an allegation, a personal opinion, or a point of view, but rather a widely documented fact supported by an overwhelming body of historical evidence,” Obama said in 2008. “The facts are undeniable. An official policy that calls on diplomats to distort the historical facts is an untenable policy.”
