SCHMIDT CHARGES OPPONENT WITH CAMPAIGN VIOLATION

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May 4 2009
Ohio

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Elections Commission wants to hear more
about the claim of a local Republican congresswoman that mixes local
politics with Turkish history and U.S. foreign policy.

U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt, of Miami Township, said an opponent made
false campaign statements that she was a puppet of Turkish efforts
to deny that the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey in World War
I constituted genocide.

Schmidt said the claims violated election law.

David Krikorian is an Armenian American who challenged Schmidt as an
independent in 2008.

He said Schmidt accepted campaign donations from Turkish interests
in return for helping them deny the genocide.

Many scholars view the Armenian deaths as the first genocide of the
20th century, but Turkey denies that the deaths constituted genocide.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress