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Turkey warns US over genocide law
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by AlanEvans | October 9, 2007 at 07:51 am
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Turkey has warned the US that bilateral ties will suffer if Washington adopts a bill recognising as genocide the Ottoman empire's killings of Armenians.In a letter to US President George W Bush, Turkish President Abdullah Gul said "serious problems" would emerge if US lawmakers passed the bill.
The US House Foreign Affairs Committee is due to discuss the bill this week.
Ankara rejects Armenian claims that the deaths of some 1.5m Armenians in 1915-17 amounted to genocide.
It admits that many Armenians were killed, but says the deaths were a result of widespread wartime fighting in Turkey during World War I.
Armenians have campaigned for the killings to be recognised internationally as genocide. Some countries have done so.
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at 08:59 on October 9th, 2007
Now that Turkish citizens and Army leaders are pushing for an attack on Iraqi Kurdistan in an effort to catch terrorists who've had some recent successes against South Eastern Turkey I doubt this bill will pass anymore. Interesting story, still, because it shows how complicated international affairs really are. Thanks for this.
at 14:28 on October 9th, 2007
If you look at the betrayal perpetrated by the western powers after WWI you will see the very seeds of the conflicts that haunt Turkey today. With respect to the Armenians it is clear to historians who research the facts of this period (1915-1922) that the Armenian people suffered Genocide at the hands of the Turkish government which used the cover of WWI to systematically massacre the indigenous Christian inhabitants of Anatolia. It is truly pathetic that the victors of WWI (US, Britain, France and Italy) turned their backs on the Armenians, Greeks and Kurds reneging on promises of self rule for these peoples long oppressed by Turkish rule. When the war ended there had been liberation achieved of Greek populated western Anatolia and Armenian eastern Anatolia. The secret deals cut by the allies with the Turks was the final chapter for millions of Christians who were then exiled or murdered by the Turkish forces led by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Turkish revisonistic history would have you believe that they were all lost due to civil war! This is the biggest pile of BS ever foisted on the world by a country founded on Genocide - Turkey for the Turks. Anatolia was once 100% Christian until the Turks conquered it from 1071 to 1453 - may the souls of those innocents people martyred by the Turks rest in peace. The US if it has any ounce of moral courage would call it what it was GENOCIDE!
The Slaughterhouse Province: An American Diplomat's Report on the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1917 by Leslie A. Davis and Susan Blair (Hardcover - Nov 1989)
The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response by Peter Balakian