President Obama's insistence about the alleged genocide convinced Turkey to sign on to the road map declared just before the annual April 24 address, sources say
An implicit threat by U.S. President Barack Obama to use the word "genocide" in an annual April 24 address to Armenians, followed by increasing frankness from diplomats, was pivotal to strong-arming Turkey and Armenia out of their deadlock.
The muscle behind the highly emotional word was the main diplomatic stick, the H
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