TURKISH BUSINESS LEADER ARGUES AGAINST ARMENIAN BILL IN LETTER SENT TO OBAMA

Anadolu Agency
March 25 2009
Turkey

Washington D.C., 25 March: The chairperson of the Turkish
Industrialists’ & Businessmen’s Association (TUSIAD) sent a letter to
US President Barack Obama on a resolution at the US congress regarding
the incidents of 1915.

Arzuhan Dogan Yalcindag, the chairperson of TUSIAD, said in her
letter that if the US Congress passed the resolution when there was a
rapprochement between Turkey and Armenia, it would be an unfortunate
situation.

She also sent copy of the letter to US Vice President Joe Biden,
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defence Robert Gates
and National Security Adviser James Jones.

Instead of initiatives which could make negative impacts on
Turkish-American relations, there was need for the ones which would
boost the relations, Yalcindag said in her letter.