Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan Doesn't Expect Barack Obama to Call Armenian Killings 'Genocide'

ISTANBUL: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday he did not wish for or expect US President Barack Obama to use the word "genocide" in reference to the mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Turks in 1915 during World War One.

"I would not want Obama to use the word 'genocide' and I would not expect such a thing," Erdogan told a joint press conference with Iraqi President Fuad Masum.