PATRIARCH MESROB II UNDERSCORES OPPOSITION TO US ARMENIAN BILL

Hurriyet, Turkey
Oct 15 2007

The spiritual leader of Armenians living in Turkey, Patriarch Mesrob
Mutafian, has asserted that he is against the Armenian bill accepted
last week by the US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign
Affairs.

Speaking in Antalya, Patriarch Mesrob II noted "I have always asked
that the ethnically Armenian Turkish citizens stay out of this
matter. This is a bill which is domestic political material within
the US, and one which is constantly brought to the agenda. It has
nothing to do with the ethnically Armenian Turkish citizens living
in Turkey. We are all against this bill."