TURKEY ASKS ISRAELI BUSINESSMEN FOR HELP IN COUNTERACTING TO ADOPTION
OF ARMENIAN RESOLUTION IN CONGRESS

ANKARA, MARCH 7, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Turkish State Minister
of Trade Kursad Tuzmen asked Israeli businessmen for help in the issue
of hampering adoption of the resolution on recognition of Armenian
Genocide in U.S. Congress. "Now we expect your support in this
issue," the Turkish Minister declared at the seminar under the title
"Turkish-Israeli Economic and Trade Cooperation."

According to the New Anatolian Turkish newspaper, Tuzmen said that
relations between his country and Israel come not only from early
past. "Turkey is the country, which after U.S. receives the greatest
number of Israeli tourists," he declared.

To recap, trade circulation between the two countries amounted to 2.1
bln USD in 2006.