Anatolia News Agency, Turkey
Oct 14 2007
Turkey’s Armenian patriarch opposes US resolution
Demre, 14 October: Mesrob Mutafyan, patriarch of Turkish Armenians,
said on Sunday [14 October] that they opposed to the resolution
regarding Armenian allegations on the incidents of 1915 which was
approved by the US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign
Affairs.
Patriarch Mutafyan visited the Santa Clause Church in Demre town of
the southern city of Antalya.
He told reporters during the visit that the resolution became a tool
of domestic policy in the United States, and called on people to
exclude Turkish citizens of Armenian origin from discussions over the
issue.
He said that they will do everything in their power to prevent
passage of the resolution by the full House.
Recalling that Prime Minister Erdogan earlier proposed Armenia to set
up a joint commission of historians to deal with the issue, Mutafyan
added that it was a significant offer.