TURKISH PREMIER CALLS FORMER US PRESIDENT CLINTON FOR SUPPORT OVER ARMENIAN BILL

Anatolia News Agency, Turkey
Oct 5 2007

Ankara, 5 October: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan phoned former
US President Bill Clinton and asked for his support against the bill
on Armenian allegations.

PM Erdogan reminded Clinton that the bill on the Armenian allegations
regarding the incidents of 1915 would be discussed at the Committee on
Foreign Affairs of the US House of Representatives, and asked Clinton
to mediate, as the House of Representatives is predominantly occupied
by Democrats, sources said.

Erdogan, recalled that in his term in office Clinton had averted
similar initiatives and asked him to do whatever he can to prevent
Turkey-US relations from being harmed.