Armenia-Turkey: Cashing in on Genocide — What will Obama say?

While many Armenians wait for 24 April in order to discover whether U.S. President Barack Obama will refer to the massacre and deportation of Armenians living in the then Ottoman Empire as genocide, bookmakers and punters in Yerevan hope to cash in. PanArmenian.Net reports that bets are now on.

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Recently Vivaro bookmakers started to accept bets for Obama’s referring to the mass slaughter of Armenians as Genocide in his commemorative statement of Apr. 24. The quotients for Obama’s referring to the Genocide were 1.30. Yet bookmakers consider it more possible Obama will refrain from this step, quotient “against” totaling 3.2. Currently the bet was excluded from Vivaro’s betting list.

During his election campaign the 44th President of The United States Barak Obama pledged that, as president, he will recognize Turkey’s slaughter of thousands of Armenians starting in 1915 as the Armenian Genocide.

Profiting from “Hay Tahd.” The Caucasian Knot wonders how some in certain circles bet…