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    Today's Zaman
    07.09.2007

    Armenian group in US launches fresh salvo for 'genocide' resolution

    A number of US congressmen supporting a resolution upholding Armenian
    allegations of genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Empire increased
    to 225, well above the half of total members in the 435-seat House of
    Representatives required for its passage, according to an Armenian
    group in the United States.
    The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) urged the Armenian
    community on its Web site to take action and increase pressure on
    their representatives in Congress to support the resolution, which
    says Armenians were subject to genocide in eastern Anatolia during
    World War I. ANCA also says 31 senators in the 100-member Senate
    support a separate resolution to the same effect. In remarks published
    in the newspaper The Jewish Advocate, Turkish Ambassador to the United
    States Nabi ªensoy called on American Jewish groups to oppose what he
    called an "act of grave injustice" against Turkey. ªensoy said a
    recent decision by an influential US Jewish group, the Anti-Defamation
    League (ADL), to endorse the Armenian claims surprised and
    disappointed the Turks.

    07.09.2007
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    Source: http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load =detay&link=121503
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