GUL SAYS COUNTERING US GENOCIDE RECOGNITION EFFORTS WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE

ASBAREZ
1/18/2007

ANKARA (Milliyet)–Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul at a meeting
of the Foreign Economic Relations organizations admitted that it
would very hard to intervene and counter efforts by the US Congress
to adopt an Armenian Genocide recognition resolution, reported the
Milliyet newspaper.

According to the Milliyet report, Gul said "events in the United
States today are very negative and it would be virtually impossible to
counter Armenian Genocide recognition efforts." Attending the meeting
of the organization, which is chaired by Gul were representatives of
Turkey’s cultural, interior, foreign, education ministries, Turkish
intelligence community members, Turkish Historical Society members
and high level officials of the Turkish armed forces.