US President Barack Obama did the anticipated and avoided using the term "genocide" when referring to the events of 1915 in the midst of World War I in eastern Anatolia. Yet, no one is happy about it. Neither the Armenians nor the Turks thought the statement appropriately reflected how to describe the complicated events of 1915. However, the statement actually attempts to find a middle path between Obama's election promises and the realities on the ground.
What is troubling from the Turkish perspective is the persistence in interpreting the events of 1915 solely from one perspective, namely the Armenian one. There is an abundance of evidence about the hundreds of thousands of Muslim losses during the time span in question. However, this is not what this piece intends to accentuate. Instead, I want to look into the possibility of whether the term "Meds Yeghern" could offer a new opening for a common narrative between Turks and Armenians.
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