"Macjoubert" <macjoubert@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:1192113095.235309.69300@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Oct 10, 6:45 pm, "Ali Asker" <pasa_as...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Turkey may cut sup****t to U.S. over Armenia bill: MP
>>
>> ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey may cut logistic sup****t to U.S. troops in
Iraq
>> if
>> the U.S. Congress backs a bill branding as genocide the 1915 massacres
of
>> Armenians by Ottoman Turks, a senior ruling AK Party lawmaker was
quoted
>> as
>> saying on Monday.
>>
>> Congress's Foreign Affairs Committee is expected to approve on
Wednesday
>> a
>> bill on the genocide issue and speaker Nancy Pelosi, a known sup****ter
of
>> the Armenian cause, could then decide to bring it to the House floor
for
>> a
>> vote.
>>
>> Turkey, a NATO ally of Wa****ngton, strongly denies Armenian claims,
>> backed
>> by many Western historians and a number of foreign parliaments, that up
>> to
>> 1.5 million ethnic Armenians suffered genocide at Turkish hands during
>> World
>> War One.
>>
>> It says many Muslim Turks as well as Christian Armenians died in
>> inter-ethnic conflict as the Ottoman Empire collapsed.
>>
>> "Don't accept this bill. If you do, we will be obliged to do many
things
>> we
>> do not want to do," the top-selling Hurriyet daily quoted AK Party
deputy
>> leader Egemen Bagis as saying.
>>
>> "For example, the Americans depend on Turkey for a large part of their
>> logistical sup****t in Iraq. We would be obliged to cut this sup****t,"
he
>> was
>> quoted as saying.
>>
>> Bagis was speaking in a personal capacity, but Turkey's government has
>> many
>> times urged foreign countries, including the United States, not to pass
>> such
>> resolutions, saying historians, not politicians, should judge historic
>> events.
>>
>> Last year, Turkey froze military and some commercial cooperation with
>> France
>> after the French National Assembly backed a bill that would make it a
>> crime
>> to deny the Armenian genocide, although the bill never became law.
>>
>> U.S. forces in both Iraq and Afghanistan get many of their supplies via
>> the
>> Incirlik military base in southern Turkey.
>>
>> Contacted by Reuters, Bagis declined to say what specific measures
Turkey
>> might take but said: "This bill might please Armenian Americans for a
few
>> days but it would definitely have a long-lasting negative effect on the
>> relation****p between two strategic allies."
>>
>> Bagis noted in his comments to Hurriyet that Turkish public opinion has
>> already turned very anti-American due to the Iraq war and Wa****ngton's
>> failure to crack down on Kurdish rebels who use northern Iraq as a base
>> from
>> which to attack Turkey.
>>
>> "If the bill p*****, pressure from public opinion (to take action
against
>> U.S. interests) will be very strong," he said.
>>
>> Bagis left for Wa****ngton with two other Turkish lawmakers on Monday to
>> lobby Congress to drop the bill.
>>
>> Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan raised Turkey's concerns with President
>> George
>> W. Bush in a telephone conversation last Friday. The Bush
administration
>> is
>> opposed to the bill but Congress is now dominated by its Democratic
>> opponents.
>
> No one , certainly not the US needs Turkish sup****t.
> A country cannot be held at ransom and forced to abandon its
> conscience to appease a so called ally.
Well, I am sure you know what is like for the small and weak countries to
make themselves something im****tant which they are not in reality. You ask
any turk about their country, without a doubt every one of them would say
that "world wouldn't even turn in its axis if they are not exist"!
>
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