Career diplomat Richard Hoagland's nomination had previously been blocked by Democratic Party members of the Senate over Hoagland's refusal to describe the World War I-era killings of Armenians as "genocide."
Turkey, a NATO member and ally of the United States, rejects that up to 1.5 million Armenians were massacred in a planned genocide during the Ottoman Empire.
(AP)
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