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TURKEY MANEUVERS TO BLOCK GENOCIDE DRAFT BY US HOUSE
ANSAmed
March 1, 2010 Monday 10:35 AM CET
Italy
(ANSAmed) Tensions in Ankara increased on the eve of Thursday's
Armenian genocide voting in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US
House of Representatives, today's Radikal daily newspaper reports.
Relations between Turkey and Armenia have until now been soured by
differences over the massacres of Armenians between 1915 and 1917 at
the time of the Ottoman Empire. Ankara denies that it was genocide,
which Ierevan has always claimed.
A Turkish delegation went yesterday to the US to hold contacts in
Washington before the voting scehduled on Thursday. The Turkish
Foreign Ministry in turn has warned the US that the approval of the
draft would have negative impact on Turco-American relations as well
as on the normalization process between Turkey and Armenia. Today's
Sabah daily newspaper adds that Turkey's newly appointed ambassador to
Washington Namik Tan was working hard to block the draft. Radikal says
that the silence of US President Barack Obama regarding the draft was
seen as a negative sign for Ankara. The paper says that the Turkish
Foreign Ministry was aware of the risks and was exerting efforts to
make the White House block the controversial process.
ANSAmed
March 1, 2010 Monday 10:35 AM CET
Italy
(ANSAmed) Tensions in Ankara increased on the eve of Thursday's
Armenian genocide voting in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US
House of Representatives, today's Radikal daily newspaper reports.
Relations between Turkey and Armenia have until now been soured by
differences over the massacres of Armenians between 1915 and 1917 at
the time of the Ottoman Empire. Ankara denies that it was genocide,
which Ierevan has always claimed.
A Turkish delegation went yesterday to the US to hold contacts in
Washington before the voting scehduled on Thursday. The Turkish
Foreign Ministry in turn has warned the US that the approval of the
draft would have negative impact on Turco-American relations as well
as on the normalization process between Turkey and Armenia. Today's
Sabah daily newspaper adds that Turkey's newly appointed ambassador to
Washington Namik Tan was working hard to block the draft. Radikal says
that the silence of US President Barack Obama regarding the draft was
seen as a negative sign for Ankara. The paper says that the Turkish
Foreign Ministry was aware of the risks and was exerting efforts to
make the White House block the controversial process.