WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is in a bind as a congressional panel prepares to vote next week on a resolution that would recognize as genocide the World War I-era killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks. Obama said as a candidate that he believed the killings were genocide. A congressional resolution to that effect could alienate Turkey, a NATO ally and traditional friend of the United States that is crucial to U.S. foreign policy goals. Past U.S. administrations have defeated similar...
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