abc7news.com, CA
Oct 13 2007
Armenians Applaud U.S. Vote On Genocide
YEREVAN, Armenia, Oct. 12, 2007 – A U.S. House panel got a standing
ovation in Armenia today.
Armenian lawmakers applauded the panel’s approval of a resolution
labeling the World War I-era killings of Armenians by Turks genocide.
The vote by the House Foreign Affairs Committee follows decades of
lobbying by Armenian-American interest groups.
Historians estimate up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by
Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I. Turkey says the toll
has been inflated.
The Bush administration worries that the resolution will harm
relations with Turkey — a key supply route for U.S. operations in
Iraq.