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TURKISH NEWSPAPER: TURKEY'S EMPTY THREATS AIMED AT FAIRLY CONSISTENT POLICIES OF THE US ADMINISTRATION ARE NOT GOING TO BLOCK THE ARMENIAN BILL
ArmInfo News Agency, Armenia
Oct 9 2007
ArmInfo. "The Armenian bill: time to trace a new path", - this is
the title of an article published in the Hurriyet newspaper (Turkey).
Speaking of the Turkish governmental administration's "enormous weapon"
aimed at blocking the US Congress from passing the "Armenian genocide
bill", Mehmet Y.Yilmaz, the author of the article, thinks that Ankara's
threats are senseless and empty.
When Mehmet Y.Yilmaz heard that administration consultant Egeman
Bagis, who left for the US for precisely this business, is reportedly
planning on telling US authorities "If the bill is accepted, you will
no longer be able to arrange logistical support for your soldiers in
Iraq through Turkey", the author really wasn't able to understand how
it was the US Congress was going to be thrown into a panic, and decide
to postpone the voting on the bill. He says that the USA is a country
which, pushing aside any logistic support from Turkey for a moment,
has been able to invade an enormous country by lowering everything
down from the air. "And the fact that the Turkish administration has
not even considered this, and that they are seeing a useless threat
as the only solution here, only serves to underscore
our lack of policy on these sorts of matters", he says. "So it is
clear now that empty threats aimed at the fairly consistent policies of
the US administration are not going to block this Armenian bill", the
author writes. He thinks that one should start channeling our energy
towards arenas which will actually elicit results, and this includes
thinking about the possibilities presented to Ankara by international
law. "But this cannot be all. We need to take concrete steps in the
propaganda war that we have somehow not been able to carry off up until
now", he adds. "Now is the time, seeing we no longer have the chance
to carry on our old ways, to trace a new path for ourselves", he says.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
ArmInfo News Agency, Armenia
Oct 9 2007
ArmInfo. "The Armenian bill: time to trace a new path", - this is
the title of an article published in the Hurriyet newspaper (Turkey).
Speaking of the Turkish governmental administration's "enormous weapon"
aimed at blocking the US Congress from passing the "Armenian genocide
bill", Mehmet Y.Yilmaz, the author of the article, thinks that Ankara's
threats are senseless and empty.
When Mehmet Y.Yilmaz heard that administration consultant Egeman
Bagis, who left for the US for precisely this business, is reportedly
planning on telling US authorities "If the bill is accepted, you will
no longer be able to arrange logistical support for your soldiers in
Iraq through Turkey", the author really wasn't able to understand how
it was the US Congress was going to be thrown into a panic, and decide
to postpone the voting on the bill. He says that the USA is a country
which, pushing aside any logistic support from Turkey for a moment,
has been able to invade an enormous country by lowering everything
down from the air. "And the fact that the Turkish administration has
not even considered this, and that they are seeing a useless threat
as the only solution here, only serves to underscore
our lack of policy on these sorts of matters", he says. "So it is
clear now that empty threats aimed at the fairly consistent policies of
the US administration are not going to block this Armenian bill", the
author writes. He thinks that one should start channeling our energy
towards arenas which will actually elicit results, and this includes
thinking about the possibilities presented to Ankara by international
law. "But this cannot be all. We need to take concrete steps in the
propaganda war that we have somehow not been able to carry off up until
now", he adds. "Now is the time, seeing we no longer have the chance
to carry on our old ways, to trace a new path for ourselves", he says.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress