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JEWS WON'T BLOCK ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION ANY MORE
PanARMENIAN.Net
10.02.2009 17:28 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Two serious threats are on the horizon to relations
between NATO allies Turkey and the United States during the period
of the new Obama administration in Washington: the Armenian Genocide
resolution and the fallout from the Turkish Prime Minister's encounter
with Israeli President Shimon Peres at Davos, according to a veteran
U.S. diplomat.
"The style of leadership in Washington now has changed and is quite
different from the Bush style. I am optimistic about the future of
bilateral ties but there are two very serious problems on the horizon,"
retired Ambassador James Holmes, president of the American-Turkish
Council, told the Hurriyet Daily News & Economic Review,
One issue is the negative repercussions in Washington from a public
confrontation between Peres and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan at the now-infamous Davos panel that ended when the latter
walked off stage, he said.
"As popular as that was in Turkey and in much of the Arab world it
was received very negatively in the United States and particularly
in the American-Jewish community, which has always been a supporter
and ally of Turkey," said Holmes. "The American-Jewish community's
support for Turkey's position on the Armenian Genocide resolution,
for example, is gone. They will not expend any political energy in
blocking a resolution or a presidential proclamation."
PanARMENIAN.Net
10.02.2009 17:28 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Two serious threats are on the horizon to relations
between NATO allies Turkey and the United States during the period
of the new Obama administration in Washington: the Armenian Genocide
resolution and the fallout from the Turkish Prime Minister's encounter
with Israeli President Shimon Peres at Davos, according to a veteran
U.S. diplomat.
"The style of leadership in Washington now has changed and is quite
different from the Bush style. I am optimistic about the future of
bilateral ties but there are two very serious problems on the horizon,"
retired Ambassador James Holmes, president of the American-Turkish
Council, told the Hurriyet Daily News & Economic Review,
One issue is the negative repercussions in Washington from a public
confrontation between Peres and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan at the now-infamous Davos panel that ended when the latter
walked off stage, he said.
"As popular as that was in Turkey and in much of the Arab world it
was received very negatively in the United States and particularly
in the American-Jewish community, which has always been a supporter
and ally of Turkey," said Holmes. "The American-Jewish community's
support for Turkey's position on the Armenian Genocide resolution,
for example, is gone. They will not expend any political energy in
blocking a resolution or a presidential proclamation."