THE ARMENIAN QUESTION
Brian DeBose, national political reporter, The Washington Times

Washington Times, DC
Oct 22 2007

If you haven’t noticed — and it’s possible you didn’t, what with all
the children’s health care, Iran, Iraq and presidential coverage —
some members of Congress are trying desperately to draw your attention
to a nigh 100-year-old episode from World War I.

U.S. Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA), George Radanovich (R-CA), Frank
Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Joe Knollenberg (R-MI), Brad Sherman (D-CA)
and Ed Royce (R-CA) want to recognize the murders of 1.5 million
Armenians, presumably by the Ottoman-Turkish Empire between 1915-1923,
as genocide.

The six lawmakers, all members of the Congressional Caucus on Armenian
Issues, said the Armenian Genocide has been recognized by more than 20
nations including Canada, Italy, Sweden, France, Argentina and Russia,
and note that the House has passed resolutions on the Holocaust and
the genocides in Cambodia, Darfur, Ukraine and Bosnia.

Many Democrats are reluctant, however, to back the resolution for
fear that it will damage realtions with Turkey, a vital U.S. ally
in the region. The relationship is an extremely fragile alliance,
according to the National Security Network.