The Economist
Feb 28 2010

The Week Ahead

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¢ A VOTE by the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday March 4th
threatens to sour relations between America and Turkey. The
congressional committee will consider whether to label the mass
slaughter of Ottoman Armenians by Turkish forces in 1915 as a
genocide. Previous similar resolutions never made it to a vote in the
House of Representatives for fear of damaging relations with an
important ally in the Middle East. But a House vote is more likely
this time after Barack Obama’s election pledge to recognise the
episode as genocide.

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