TURKEY SAYS U.S. ARMENIAN BILL WOULD HURT TIES

Mediafax, Romania
Feb 11 2007

Turkey"s Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said on Saturday a planned
U.S. bill branding the mass killings of Armenians during World War
One as genocide would set back Turkish-American ties and hurt U.S.
interests, Reuters reported.

A bill recognizing the killings of as many as 1.5 million Armenians
on what is now Turkish soil in 1915 as genocide is currently before
the House of Representatives in Washington.

"(This bill) will endanger (U.S.) security interests," Gul said in
a televised speech on his return from a week-long trip to the United
States, without specifying how.