Why won't the US and UK recognise the Armenian Genocide?

Started thinking about this again when Turkish PM Erdogan (who refers to the AG as the '1915 events' and 'so-called genocide') put out his statement on Israel-Gaza.

43 US states and Wales, Scotland, and the O6 recognise the AG, but both the US and UK don't. Obama even campaigned on recognising it but has refused to even use the term since his election.

Why not? For NATO? The USSR doesn't exist anymore. For support in the Middle East? They refused to help in Iraq, oppress the Kurds, allowed ISIS to strengthen, and have been disgusting regarding Israel (threatening Turkish Jews with reprisals if Israel mentions the AG, latest Gaza thing, etc.), and continue to destabilise Cyprus. Oil? No help there. To keep Turkey secular? Turkey's been changing museums back into mosques (and threatening the Hagia Sophia), been horrible with regard to the Greek Orthodox, and been enacting more pro-Sharia laws.

So, why won't the US and UK recognise the Armenian Genocide?


ETA:

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Tell us what the Armenian Genocide is.

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From the Armenian National Institute LINK:

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The atrocities committed against the Armenian people of the Ottoman Empire during W.W.I are called the Armenian Genocide. Genocide is the organized killing of a people for the express purpose of putting an end to their collective existence. Because of its scope, genocide requires central planning and a machinery to implement it. This makes genocide the quintessential state crime as only a government has the resources to carry out such a scheme of destruction. The Armenian Genocide was centrally planned and administered by the Turkish government against the entire Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire. It was carried out during W.W.I between the years 1915 and 1918. The Armenian people were subjected to deportation, expropriation, abduction, torture, massacre, and starvation. The great bulk of the Armenian population was forcibly removed from Armenia and Anatolia to Syria, where the vast majority was sent into the desert to die of thirst and hunger. Large numbers of Armenians were methodically massacred throughout the Ottoman Empire. Women and children were abducted and horribly abused. The entire wealth of the Armenian people was expropriated. After only a little more than a year of calm at the end of W.W.I, the atrocities were renewed between 1920 and 1923, and the remaining Armenians were subjected to further massacres and expulsions. In 1915, thirty-three years before UN Genocide Convention was adopted, the Armenian Genocide was condemned by the international community as a crime against humanity.

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It is estimated that one and a half million Armenians perished between 1915 and 1923. There were an estimated two million Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire on the eve of W.W.I. Well over a million were deported in 1915. Hundreds of thousands were butchered outright. Many others died of starvation, exhaustion, and epidemics which ravaged the concentration camps. Among the Armenians living along the periphery of the Ottoman Empire many at first escaped the fate of their countrymen in the central provinces of Turkey. Tens of thousands in the east fled to the Russian border to lead a precarious existence as refugees. The majority of the Armenians in Constantinople, the capital city, were spared deportation. In 1918, however, the Young Turk regime took the war into the Caucasus, where approximately 1,800,000 Armenians lived under Russian dominion. Ottoman forces advancing through East Armenia and Azerbaijan here too engaged in systematic massacres. The expulsions and massacres carried by the Nationalist Turks between 1920 and 1922 added tens of thousands of more victims. By 1923 the entire landmass of Asia Minor and historic West Armenia had been expunged of its Armenian population. The destruction of the Armenian communities in this part of the world was total.

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