The White House on Tuesday deleted a post from US Vice President JD Vance’s account that commemorated massacres of Armenians as a “genocide,” saying the message, likely to irk US-allied Turkey, was posted in error.

Vance, who was on a two-day trip to Armenia, visited the Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan during the first-ever visit by a US vice president to the South Caucasus republic.

There, he and his wife, Usha Vance, participated in a ceremonial laying of a wreath of carnations, chrysanthemums, and roses at the site, which honors the 1.5 million Armenians who lost their lives in the final years of the Turkish-led Ottoman Empire.

Vance’s official account on X later described the visit as designed “to honor the victims of the 1915 Armenian genocide.”

After that post was deleted, a Vance aide who declined to be named said the message was posted in error by staff who were not part of the traveling delegation.

“This is an account managed by staff that primarily exists to share photos and videos of the Vice President’s activities,” said a spokesperson for Vance, referring to the vice president’s own comments, which did not include the phrase “genocide.”

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