Recent negotiations over Cyprus and the 1915 Armenian Genocide were at the top of the agenda during the new U.S. envoy John Bass’s visit with Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu in Ankara, Istanbul Post reported citing diplomatic sources.

As Çavuşoğlu said during the meeting, Turkey is “sensitive” towards Genocide-related issues which may hurt bilateral relations if included on the U.S. agenda.

Recently, Çavuşoğlu announced that Ankara will take every measure to disallow the U.S. adoption of the Genocide resolution ahead of the centenary of the Armenian massacres in the Ottoman Empire.

As Bass said earlier, commenting on the U.S. plans on the adoption of the Genocide resolution, Washington’s official position on the issue is reflected in the administration’s annual April 24 addresses.

As a senator, U.S. President Obama co-sponsored a resolution calling for the use of the term “genocide”. During the 2008 campaign, Obama said: "My firmly held conviction (is) that the Armenian Genocide is not an allegation, a personal opinion, or a point of view, but rather a widely documented fact supported by an overwhelming body of historical evidence," he said in a statement. "The facts are undeniable," Obama wrote. "As President I will recognize the Armenian Genocide."

After assuming the presidential post, Obama traditionally fails to use the proper term to describe the crime against humanity, instead referring to it as Meds Yeghern.