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ERDOGAN AIDE, US HOUSE SPEAKER'S SECRET MEETING ON ARMENIAN BILL
armradio.am
09.07.2007 15:21
Cuneyd Zapsu, a top adviser to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
lobbied against an Armenian Genocide bill pending in Congress during
talks in February with Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Speaker of the House
of Representatives, a meeting that had been keep secret until now,
the Turkish Daily News reports.
Richard Holbrooke, a Democrat and a former top diplomat, arranged
and attended the meeting, one source said. Holbrooke is known for
his role in putting an end to the war in Bosnia as assistant state
of secretary in former President Bill Clinton's Administration.
Zapsu voiced the Ankara government's concerns over the resolution,
saying its passage by the House would seriously hurt bilateral ties
with Turkey, said the source.
The Pelosi-Zapsu meeting took place shortly after Foreign Minister
Abdullah Gul also visited the US capital in early February. But neither
Gul nor three Turkish parliamentary teams visiting Washington one after
another to lobby against the bill had talks with the House Speaker.
armradio.am
09.07.2007 15:21
Cuneyd Zapsu, a top adviser to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
lobbied against an Armenian Genocide bill pending in Congress during
talks in February with Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Speaker of the House
of Representatives, a meeting that had been keep secret until now,
the Turkish Daily News reports.
Richard Holbrooke, a Democrat and a former top diplomat, arranged
and attended the meeting, one source said. Holbrooke is known for
his role in putting an end to the war in Bosnia as assistant state
of secretary in former President Bill Clinton's Administration.
Zapsu voiced the Ankara government's concerns over the resolution,
saying its passage by the House would seriously hurt bilateral ties
with Turkey, said the source.
The Pelosi-Zapsu meeting took place shortly after Foreign Minister
Abdullah Gul also visited the US capital in early February. But neither
Gul nor three Turkish parliamentary teams visiting Washington one after
another to lobby against the bill had talks with the House Speaker.