"ec" <lol777a@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> "historic mass killings" or "genocide"
> 1.5 or 2 million
> what a squabble
>
> It's about timeTurkey gets use to the word "genocide".
Right after the U$A gets used to, and accepts, it own genocidal history.
>
> Laura Schlessinger/holocaust/genocide
>
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.radio.talk.dr-laura/browse_frm/thread/b4f2a3cdd89fa1b0/49a25744186e82b1#49a25744186e82b1
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> On Oct 10, 9:50 am, "_ Prof. Jonez _" <thep...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Bush urges rejection of Armenia genocide resolution
>> Wed Oct 10, 2007 12:14pm EDT
>> By Tabassum Zakaria
>>
>> WA****NGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Wednesday urged U.S.
>> lawmakers to reject a congressional resolution calling the 1915
massacres of
>> Armenians genocide, saying it would do "great harm" to U.S. relations
with
>> Turkey.
>>
>> "This resolution is not the right response to these historic mass
killings,"
>> Bush told re****ters at the White House.
>>
>> The House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee is to consider
the
>> Armenian genocide resolution later on Wednesday. If it p*****, House
Speaker
>> Nancy Pelosi, a longtime sup****ter of the measure, could then decide to
bring it
>> before the full House for a vote.
>>
>> Many Democrats, who control Congress, sup****t the resolution, which has
226
>> co-sponsors, more than half the House.
>>
>> The measure comes at a delicate time for Turkey-U.S. relations.
>>
>> Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, who telephoned Bush last week
about the
>> Armenian resolution, confirmed on Wednesday his government was drawing
up plans
>> to authorize a cross-border incursion into northern Iraq to strike
Kurdish
>> rebels after 15 Turkish soldiers were killed in attacks in recent days.
>>
>> Wa****ngton has urged Turkey not to send troops into mainly Kurdish
northern Iraq
>> for fear of destabilizing the country's most peaceful region.
>>
>> In calling on lawmakers to reject the Armenian measure, Bush said: "Its
passage
>> would do great harm to our relations with a key ally in NATO and in the
global
>> war on terror."
>>
>> The bulk of supplies for U.S. troops in Iraq pass via Turkey's Incirlik
airbase.
>> Turkey also provides thousands of truck drivers and other workers for
U.S.
>> operations in Iraq.
>>
>> HARD LOBBYING
>>
>> Turkey has warned of damage to bilateral ties if Congress p***** the
Armenian
>> bill, and a delegation of Turkish lawmakers visited Capitol Hill on
Tuesday to
>> underscore that point.
>>
>> Turkey strongly rejects the Armenian position, backed by many Western
historians
>> and a growing number of foreign parliaments, that up to 1.5 million
Armenians
>> suffered genocide at the hands of Ottoman Turks during World War One.
>>
>> Ankara says many Muslim Turks as well as Christian Armenians died in
>> inter-ethnic conflict as the Ottoman Empire collapsed.
>>
>> The resolution recognizing the 1915 mass killings of Armenians by Turks
as
>> genocide was introduced in the House by Rep. Adam Schiff, a California
Democrat
>> who has a large number of Armenian-Americans in his district.
>>
>> Similar resolutions have been introduced in the House for years, with
>> Armenian-American groups lobbying hard for passage.
>>
>> The proposals have sometimes passed committees. But while Republicans
controlled
>> Congress, they blocked a vote by the full House, saying they did not
want to
>> embarrass Turkey.
>>
>> Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the resolution would be "very
>> destabilizing to our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan because Turkey, as
an
>> im****tant strategic ally, is very critical in sup****ting the efforts
that we are
>> making in these crucial areas."
>>
>> Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates made statements to re****ters at
the
>> White House, emphasizing the administration's concern that the
resolution would
>> hurt U.S. ties with Turkey.
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