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TURKISH PRESIDENT SLATES US ARMENIAN RESOLUTION
NTV MSNBC, Turkey
Oct 11 2007
The committee's decision is not binding and has yet to be put to a
vote of Congress.
ANKARA - Turkey's President has described as unacceptable a decision
by the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee to adopt
a resolution acknowledging Armenian claims that the Ottoman Empire
committed an act of genocide during World War One.
Speaking on Thursday morning, just hours after the committee voted in
favour of adopting the resolution, President Abdullah Gul said the
move had been motivated by US domestic politics, not by historical
realities.
"Unfortunately, some politicians in the United States of America have
closed their ears to calls to be reasonable and once again sought to
sacrifice big problems for small domestic political games," Gul said.
"This unacceptable decision of the committee, like similar ones in the
past, is not regarded by the Turkish people as valid or of any value."
Turkey has warned that if the resolution was adopted, it would cause
harm to Ankara's relations with the US.
NTV MSNBC, Turkey
Oct 11 2007
The committee's decision is not binding and has yet to be put to a
vote of Congress.
ANKARA - Turkey's President has described as unacceptable a decision
by the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee to adopt
a resolution acknowledging Armenian claims that the Ottoman Empire
committed an act of genocide during World War One.
Speaking on Thursday morning, just hours after the committee voted in
favour of adopting the resolution, President Abdullah Gul said the
move had been motivated by US domestic politics, not by historical
realities.
"Unfortunately, some politicians in the United States of America have
closed their ears to calls to be reasonable and once again sought to
sacrifice big problems for small domestic political games," Gul said.
"This unacceptable decision of the committee, like similar ones in the
past, is not regarded by the Turkish people as valid or of any value."
Turkey has warned that if the resolution was adopted, it would cause
harm to Ankara's relations with the US.