NTV MSNBC, Turkey
March 26 2007

US Senate committee to vote on Turkish resolution

Turkey has objected to references to the so-called Armenian genocide
in the draft text of the resolution.

WASHINGTON – The US Senate’s Committee on Foreign Relations is to
vote on Wednesday on a draft resolution condemning the killing of
Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, it was announced Monday.
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The draft resolution, tabled by Senator Joseph Biden, also calls on
Turkey to remove article 301 from the country’s statute books.

The controversial article covers the crime of insulting Turkish
identity, and has been used to prosecute a number of Turkish
journalists academics and writers, including Dink, who was gunned
down in Istanbul on January 19.

Other sections of the draft resolution call on Turkey to establish
diplomatic, political and commercial relations with Armenia.

Both Ankara and the Bush Administration have spoken out against
references to the so-called Armenian genocide in the text of the
resolution.