HEAVY DIPLOMATIC TRAFFIC AS ANKARA ANTICIPATES ARMENIAN BILL VOTE
Hurriyet, Turkey
Oct 16 2007
With the US House of Representatives expected soon to vote on the
Armenian bill, President Abdullah Gul is meeting today in Ankara with
authorities from the Foreign Ministry to firm up possible reactions
from Turkey in the event that the US House passes the resolution With
Assistant US Defense Secretary Eric Edelman and Assistant Secretary of
State Dan Fried in Ankara for talks on the matter, the Turkish Foreign
Ministry yesterday saw long meetings on the Armenian allegations,
and possible Turkish reactions to US passage of the resolution. In
the meantime, Turkish Ambassador to Washington, DC, Nabi Sensoy,
is also in Ankara, having been called back to Turkey by the Foreign
Ministry for meetings on the Armenian bill.
President Gul will meet today at Cankaya with Foreign Minister Ali
Babacan, Minister Undersecretary Ertugrul Apakan, and Ambassador
Sensoy. The final strategy will reportedly be presented to Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for approval. A decision on when
Ambassador Sensoy should return to the US capital will reportedly be
made at the end of "administration evaluations" in Ankara.