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Daily Sabah, Turkey
April 17 2014
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Boehner meets with top Turkish
officials and assures Turkey that there was no chance the Armenian
genocide bill would pass
by Daily Sabah
ANKARA -- A delegation from the U.S. House of Representatives took
part in a series of bilateral meetings yesterday in Ankara. The U.S.
lawmakers, led by U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner,
were received by Parliament Speaker Cemil Cicek. Cicek and Boehner
talked about the Armenian genocide bill that increase tension between
the two countries. Boehner later met Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan in a meeting closed to the media and the delegation was
expected to meet with President Abdullah Gul late last night.
In addition to Boehner, Chairman of the House Committee on Education
and the Workforce Representative John Kline, Chairman of the House
Committee on Natural Resources Representative Doc Hastings, House
Committee on Energy and Commerce and chairman of the Subcommittee
on Communications and Technology Representative Greg Walden, and
Representative Steve Womack of the House Committee on Appropriations,
travelled to Turkey. The American lawmakers were accompanied by AK
Party Deputies and U.S.-Turkey Parliamentary Friendship Group Member
Nursuna Memecan.
After the meeting with the U.S. delegation, Cicek said lawmakers
discussed bilateral relations and Armenian genocide allegations.
Regarding the resolution on the alleged Armenian genocide introduced
to the U.S.
Congress, Cicek said, "Parliaments should build the future today
and should leave history to historians. We are ready to confront our
history. Scientists, historians, whoever knows anything and whoever
has something to say should investigate this matter. If the parliaments
began to make decisions on historical events, this may harm bilateral
relations and friendship." Boehner emphasized that representatives
involved in the resolution are lawmakers and not historians. Pointing
to his 24 years career in the House of Representatives, Boehner
said that Armenian genocide claims popped up on the agenda of the
lower house from time to time. "Our congress will not get involved in
this issue. We are not writing history. We are also not historians,"
said Boehner.
Daily Sabah, Turkey
April 17 2014
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Boehner meets with top Turkish
officials and assures Turkey that there was no chance the Armenian
genocide bill would pass
by Daily Sabah
ANKARA -- A delegation from the U.S. House of Representatives took
part in a series of bilateral meetings yesterday in Ankara. The U.S.
lawmakers, led by U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner,
were received by Parliament Speaker Cemil Cicek. Cicek and Boehner
talked about the Armenian genocide bill that increase tension between
the two countries. Boehner later met Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan in a meeting closed to the media and the delegation was
expected to meet with President Abdullah Gul late last night.
In addition to Boehner, Chairman of the House Committee on Education
and the Workforce Representative John Kline, Chairman of the House
Committee on Natural Resources Representative Doc Hastings, House
Committee on Energy and Commerce and chairman of the Subcommittee
on Communications and Technology Representative Greg Walden, and
Representative Steve Womack of the House Committee on Appropriations,
travelled to Turkey. The American lawmakers were accompanied by AK
Party Deputies and U.S.-Turkey Parliamentary Friendship Group Member
Nursuna Memecan.
After the meeting with the U.S. delegation, Cicek said lawmakers
discussed bilateral relations and Armenian genocide allegations.
Regarding the resolution on the alleged Armenian genocide introduced
to the U.S.
Congress, Cicek said, "Parliaments should build the future today
and should leave history to historians. We are ready to confront our
history. Scientists, historians, whoever knows anything and whoever
has something to say should investigate this matter. If the parliaments
began to make decisions on historical events, this may harm bilateral
relations and friendship." Boehner emphasized that representatives
involved in the resolution are lawmakers and not historians. Pointing
to his 24 years career in the House of Representatives, Boehner
said that Armenian genocide claims popped up on the agenda of the
lower house from time to time. "Our congress will not get involved in
this issue. We are not writing history. We are also not historians,"
said Boehner.