Turkish society is indeed changing as it is showing more openness to discuss the Armenian Genocide. Now a group of Turkish inteligencia gathers in Istanbul and calls the pogroms of 1915 as the Armenian genocide because not only 1.5 million Armenians were murdered but also their culture, churches and the land hit by destruction.

No he did not call it Genocide. President Obama failed to call the Aremnian genocide of 1915 what it was. He did this, we all know, to avoid upsetting Turkey. That is plain and simply the case

It is true that president Barack Obama did not use the word Genocide when refering to the mass killings of the Armenian population in Eastern Anatolia (today's Turkey), however, he used the Armenian very respected equivalent of Genocide "The Meds Yeghern" two times in his speech. Armenians use the phrase The Meds Yeghern when referring to the Genocide.

Is Obama's statement on Armenian killings a great relief for Turkey's government? We will see… Although Obama did not use the G-word as promised, he used the Armenian phraze "Meds Yeghern" for it. Barack Obama was seen by the Turkish diplomats as the most decisive president to use the G-word. Tackling that can be considered as a diplomatic victory on Turkish side. But for the Armenian diaspora, it is certainly the biggest disappoinment ever.

Today, when millions of Armenians and number of countries that commemorate the 94th tragic anniversary of the Armenian genocide their eyes were also on Barack Obama's campaign promise number 511, that had said "as President I will recognize the Armenian Genocide." While he missed it, Obama used the term "Mets Eghern" twice. That is the Armenian equivalent of Genocide. One and a half million Armenians were slaughtered in eastern Turkey in 1915

Barack Obama promised to call the holocaust and genocide of Armenians by Turkey what is is. Tomorrow is the day comemorating that holocaust. What will Obama do?

Early this morning Turkey, Armenia and Switzerland announced that a road map agreement is reached between Armenia and Turkey for normalizing relations. No details are yet available about the Turkish Armenian roadmap, but some scarce information from major newspapers and diplomats is already leaking.

As Obama Seeks To Stop Genocide in Darfur, Calls Intensify for Affirmation of Turkey's Genocide of Armenians

April is an interesting month of the year. Christians celebrate the happy and hopeful occasion of Easter most of the time in April. But we also commemorate the Jewish Holocaust in April as today is Holocaust remembrance day. Three days later on April 24th another similar and tragic event will be remembered as well: The Armenian Genocide. A commemoration still crying for justice, recognition and condemnation.

How does anyone deny the existence of a systematic killings of the Armenians as a genocide in the early 20th century after looking these documents presented online by the Armenian Genocide Museum Institute on the occasion of Adana Massacres of 1909.

That an Armenian repatriate, American-born into a legacy of remembrance inherited from a line of survivors of genocide nearly a century ago, feels compelled to title his thoughts with a focus on Turkey -- not Armenia -- reveals a larger problem, a gaping wound, and an imperative for closure long overdue on both sides of history's tragic divide.