TURKISH GENERAL STAFF: U.S. "SHOT ITSELF IN THE FOOT" BY APPROVING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION

PanARMENIAN.Net
15.10.2007 16:23 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkey’s most senior general warned on Sunday that
military ties with the U.S. would be severely damaged if the House of
Representatives adopted a resolution labeling the massacre of Armenians
in the Ottoman Empire as Genocide. The warning comes amid signs that
relations between Washington and Ankara are starting to unravel.

General Yashar Buyukanit said that the U.S. "shot itself in the foot in
its handling of the Armenian resolution, adopted by a House committee
last week, and by failing to clamp down on the PKK Kurdish separatist
movement in northern Iraq, which Turkey blames for the killings of
at least 30 Turkish soldiers and civilians in the past two weeks."

"If this resolution that was passed in the committee also passes in the
House, our military ties with the U.S. can never be the same again,"
Gen Buyukanit said, Financial Times reports.