The Newsweek magazine published a detailed article about former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s position on the Armenian Genocide.

According to the article, when Hillary Rodham Clinton was running for president in 2008, her stance on this genocide was clear. She even had issued a statement saying that “alone among the presidential candidates, I have been a long-standing supporter of the Armenian Genocide Resolution.”

But, as secretary of state for the Obama administration, Clinton spoke differently about this atrocity, and she did not use the word genocide.

As per the article, this is a “shift that illustrates the difficulty Clinton faced balancing the interests of the Turks and collective memory. Clinton needed to woo Turkey, a U.S. ally and fellow NATO member, on issues ranging from the Iraq War to interdicting drug trafficking to pushing back against Vladimir Putin.” 

Clinton also refrained from using the G-word at several key moments during her time as secretary of state.

Now freed from her responsibilities as secretary of state, however, Clinton seems eager to use the G-word again.

The Newsweek added that some U.S. presidents have used the G-word, while others have refrained.