While posting US President Barack Obama’s April 24 statement on Twitter, US Ambassador to Ankara John Bass use the term “Armenian Genocide.”

Bass posted Obama’s April 24 statement on Twitter in English and in Turkish, but in the latter, it was written: “The [US] President’s Statement on Armenian Genocide,” reported Star daily newspaper of Turkey.

This action by the American diplomat, however, became a scandal in Turkey, whereupon—and under pressure—the US ambassador took a step back and removed the word “genocide.”