TURKEY SLAMS US HOUSE PANEL OVER GENOCIDE BILL

Focus
Oct 11 2007
Bulgaria

Ankara. Turkish President Abdullah Gul denounced Thursday as
"unacceptable" the endorsement of a measure branding as genocide the
Ottoman massacres of Armenians by a key US congressional committee.

"This unacceptable decision of the committee… has no validity and
respectability for the Turkish people," Gul told the Anatolia news
agency, cited by AFP.

"Unfortunately, some politicians in the United States ignored appeals
for common sense and once again moved to sacrifice big issues to
petty games of domestic politics," he said.