TURKISH RULING PARTY DEPUTY SAYS ARMENIAN BILL TO HURT BILATERAL TIES WITH USA
Anatolia News Agency, Turkey
Oct 6 2007
Ankara, 6 October: "If the United States makes a historical error
and adopt a resolution on the incidents of 1915 in the House of
Representatives, this would be a problem and scandal of the US," said
Egemen Bagis, Deputy Chairman of the ruling Justice and Development
(AK) Party, on Saturday [6 October].
Speaking to the AA [Anatolia Agency], Bagis indicated that Republican
People’s Party (CHP) MP from Istanbul Sukru Elekdag and Nationalist
Movement Party (MHP) MP from Istanbul Gunduz Aktan and he will pay a
visit to the United States to hold discussions with non-governmental
organizations, senators, members of the House of Representatives,
high level bureaucrats and academicians and try to explain to all
that the adoption of a resolution on the incidents of 1915 would be
a serious blow to Turkish-US relations.
"We will do everything possible to defeat the Armenian resolution
which, if adopted, can hurt Turkish-US relations and the national
interests of the US," told Bagis.
Bagis, Elekdag and Aktan will be in the United States between 8 and
11 October.