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ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION LIKELY TO BE PASSED IN CONGRESS IN APRIL
PanARMENIAN.Net
10.11.2008 18:00 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ U.S. President Barack Obama was elected from Illinois
and Chicago, the state capital, has a large Greek and Armenian
population, said Sabri Sayari, a professor of political science at
Sabanci University.
"For electoral reasons, Obama has been pushing for this for years
now. Joe Biden was elected from Delaware, which also has a small but
influential Greek-American population. Greek and Armenian Americans
work together on this issue. When you have both the president and
the vice president strongly pushing for this, the Armenian Genocide
resolution will pass in Congress this time in April. Both Biden and
Obama have been tremendously committed to the issue," he said.
If Turkey and Armenia open their mutual border as the next step of the
recent rapprochement between them, it could change the equilibrium in
Turkey's relations with Armenia, but it would not affect the diaspora,
according to him.
"We have seen what happened in the Greek-Turkish situation. Turkey
reached a rapprochement with Greece in 1999 and the relations are
quite warm, but the Greek-American diaspora is still critical of
Turkey. Just two weeks ago, the founding of the Turkish Republic was
being celebrated in Los Angeles by Turkish-Americans and 200 young
Armenians demonstrated there. What happens between Turkey and Armenia
does not seem to be affecting the diaspora community," Sayari said,
Today's Zaman reports.
PanARMENIAN.Net
10.11.2008 18:00 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ U.S. President Barack Obama was elected from Illinois
and Chicago, the state capital, has a large Greek and Armenian
population, said Sabri Sayari, a professor of political science at
Sabanci University.
"For electoral reasons, Obama has been pushing for this for years
now. Joe Biden was elected from Delaware, which also has a small but
influential Greek-American population. Greek and Armenian Americans
work together on this issue. When you have both the president and
the vice president strongly pushing for this, the Armenian Genocide
resolution will pass in Congress this time in April. Both Biden and
Obama have been tremendously committed to the issue," he said.
If Turkey and Armenia open their mutual border as the next step of the
recent rapprochement between them, it could change the equilibrium in
Turkey's relations with Armenia, but it would not affect the diaspora,
according to him.
"We have seen what happened in the Greek-Turkish situation. Turkey
reached a rapprochement with Greece in 1999 and the relations are
quite warm, but the Greek-American diaspora is still critical of
Turkey. Just two weeks ago, the founding of the Turkish Republic was
being celebrated in Los Angeles by Turkish-Americans and 200 young
Armenians demonstrated there. What happens between Turkey and Armenia
does not seem to be affecting the diaspora community," Sayari said,
Today's Zaman reports.