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THE TIMES WHEN TURKEY AND THE USA WERE ALLIES, HAVE FADED INTO OBLIVION
PanARMENIAN.Net
Analytical Department
27.10.2007 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkey thinks that it has won a regular round in its
fight of the Armenian Genocide denial, since the authors of Resolution
106 congressmen Adam Schiff, Brad Sherman, and congresswoman Anna Eshoo
addressed a letter to the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Nancy Pelosi with a proposition to postpone the vote of the Resolution
with the fear that it won't be approved.
"We suppose that the overwhelming majority of our colleagues are
willing to support the Resolution, and will certainly do so but at
a more favorable moment.
We will continue working on the recognition of the Armenian Genocide
committed by the Ottoman Empire, but the time for the final voting
may be scheduled for later or for the year of 2008," says the letter
addressed to the Speaker.
"Before both parties picked the words addressed to each other with
thoroughness. It resulted from mutual needs during the cold war. Today
everything has changed, and I believe this is what will cause further
deterioration of the relations. This is very serious.
Both parties stopped paying enough attention to the key problem of
their interrelations; i.e. the lack of understanding over the issue of
strategic interrelations," says the Director of the Turkish Project
of the Strategic and International research Center in Washington
Bulent Aliriza. In this regard it should be reminded that the tension
between Ankara and Washington was created in March 2003 when the
Turkish Parliament refused to take the decision according to which
the U.S. troops could enter the territory of Iraq through the Turkish
border. It is quite natural that the Pentagon still remembers what
happened in March of 2003, and the Capitol Hill has already understood
that Turkey is not at all a good ally.
Turkey's key argument in its dispute with the USA is the Kurdish
issue and security of the U.S. troops in Iraq. However, the letter of
the congressmen was immediately followed by the announcement made by
Recep Erdoghan saying that "the decision about the launching of the
military operation in Northern Iraq will be made by Ankara without
any outer help; the powers have already rejected the call of the USA
to restraint".
The announcement humiliating the USA was made exactly when the
White House and the State Department put superhuman efforts to make
the congressmen change their mind. According to the ANCA Executive
Director (Armenian National Committee of America) Aram Hambaryan,
"Allowing Turkey to deny the Armenian Genocide, the USA undermines
its capability of positively influencing on the situation in the
Middle East and in the whole world." He also thinks that "after the
confusion resulted by the threats passes, the two-party majority will
speak against the Turkish policy of threat and will vote in favor of
the Resolution standing for the human rights." One of the authors and
the initiators of Resolution 106 the congressman Adam Schiff emphasized
that unfortunately the reality showed that the Turkish lobby deserves
the money it is paid. "The worst is when what is planned doesn't
bring the desired success. Turkey thinks that its campaign on the
Genocide denial has been successfully completed. Unfortunately our
State Department also had its role in this process and supported them,"
emphasized Schiff.
"Turkey achieved its goal, but it happened for the last time. The USA
canceled the voting in exchange for Turkey's promise not to unleash
war in the Northern Iraq. However, I think that during the next session
of the Congress in 2008 the Resolution will in any case be put to the
vote, and will be adopted. Turkey has no more resources for displaying
pressure on the USA," assures Ruben Safrastyan. In fact it turned
out that Turkey's promises mean nothing at all, and right were those
congressmen who said that "the true allies do not use threats against
each other." In its turn the Director of the Caucasian Institute of
Mass Media Alexander Iskandaryan emphasized that Turkey played on the
nerves of the USA and such an outcome was no surprise. "In the given
case the role of the political advisability was great, but practically
the Armenian Genocide was recognized by the congressmen," he believes.
PanARMENIAN.Net
Analytical Department
27.10.2007 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkey thinks that it has won a regular round in its
fight of the Armenian Genocide denial, since the authors of Resolution
106 congressmen Adam Schiff, Brad Sherman, and congresswoman Anna Eshoo
addressed a letter to the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Nancy Pelosi with a proposition to postpone the vote of the Resolution
with the fear that it won't be approved.
"We suppose that the overwhelming majority of our colleagues are
willing to support the Resolution, and will certainly do so but at
a more favorable moment.
We will continue working on the recognition of the Armenian Genocide
committed by the Ottoman Empire, but the time for the final voting
may be scheduled for later or for the year of 2008," says the letter
addressed to the Speaker.
"Before both parties picked the words addressed to each other with
thoroughness. It resulted from mutual needs during the cold war. Today
everything has changed, and I believe this is what will cause further
deterioration of the relations. This is very serious.
Both parties stopped paying enough attention to the key problem of
their interrelations; i.e. the lack of understanding over the issue of
strategic interrelations," says the Director of the Turkish Project
of the Strategic and International research Center in Washington
Bulent Aliriza. In this regard it should be reminded that the tension
between Ankara and Washington was created in March 2003 when the
Turkish Parliament refused to take the decision according to which
the U.S. troops could enter the territory of Iraq through the Turkish
border. It is quite natural that the Pentagon still remembers what
happened in March of 2003, and the Capitol Hill has already understood
that Turkey is not at all a good ally.
Turkey's key argument in its dispute with the USA is the Kurdish
issue and security of the U.S. troops in Iraq. However, the letter of
the congressmen was immediately followed by the announcement made by
Recep Erdoghan saying that "the decision about the launching of the
military operation in Northern Iraq will be made by Ankara without
any outer help; the powers have already rejected the call of the USA
to restraint".
The announcement humiliating the USA was made exactly when the
White House and the State Department put superhuman efforts to make
the congressmen change their mind. According to the ANCA Executive
Director (Armenian National Committee of America) Aram Hambaryan,
"Allowing Turkey to deny the Armenian Genocide, the USA undermines
its capability of positively influencing on the situation in the
Middle East and in the whole world." He also thinks that "after the
confusion resulted by the threats passes, the two-party majority will
speak against the Turkish policy of threat and will vote in favor of
the Resolution standing for the human rights." One of the authors and
the initiators of Resolution 106 the congressman Adam Schiff emphasized
that unfortunately the reality showed that the Turkish lobby deserves
the money it is paid. "The worst is when what is planned doesn't
bring the desired success. Turkey thinks that its campaign on the
Genocide denial has been successfully completed. Unfortunately our
State Department also had its role in this process and supported them,"
emphasized Schiff.
"Turkey achieved its goal, but it happened for the last time. The USA
canceled the voting in exchange for Turkey's promise not to unleash
war in the Northern Iraq. However, I think that during the next session
of the Congress in 2008 the Resolution will in any case be put to the
vote, and will be adopted. Turkey has no more resources for displaying
pressure on the USA," assures Ruben Safrastyan. In fact it turned
out that Turkey's promises mean nothing at all, and right were those
congressmen who said that "the true allies do not use threats against
each other." In its turn the Director of the Caucasian Institute of
Mass Media Alexander Iskandaryan emphasized that Turkey played on the
nerves of the USA and such an outcome was no surprise. "In the given
case the role of the political advisability was great, but practically
the Armenian Genocide was recognized by the congressmen," he believes.