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TURKEY WARNS U.S. ARMENIA GENOCIDE BILL WILL HARM TIES
Radio Free Europe
Radio Liberty, Czech Republic
Oct 7 2007
October 7, 2007 -- The head of Turkey's Parliament has warned the
United States against passing an Armenian genocide bill, saying that
the move would harm bilateral ties. parliament
Speaker Koksal Toptan said in a letter to House of Representative's
Speaker Nancy Pelosi that it might take decades to heal the negative
effects of the bill.
The genocide bill declares the killings of more than 1.5 million
Armenians between 1915 and 1917 a systematic genocide by the Ottoman
Turks -- something which Ankara denies.
Radio Free Europe
Radio Liberty, Czech Republic
Oct 7 2007
October 7, 2007 -- The head of Turkey's Parliament has warned the
United States against passing an Armenian genocide bill, saying that
the move would harm bilateral ties. parliament
Speaker Koksal Toptan said in a letter to House of Representative's
Speaker Nancy Pelosi that it might take decades to heal the negative
effects of the bill.
The genocide bill declares the killings of more than 1.5 million
Armenians between 1915 and 1917 a systematic genocide by the Ottoman
Turks -- something which Ankara denies.