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March 5 2010

Armenian genocide turned Turkey red

Turkey react angrily on US lawmakers for branding Armenian killing in
World War I by Ottoman forces as `genocide’.

Turkey has recalled its ambassador after getting furious and address
to consider other responses as well. Government of Turkey, American
representatives and fellow Nato member have tried a lot to prevent
American congress not to vote on this issue, as this can harm the
relationships between Turkey and America. Even after strong opposition
the House Foreign Affairs Committee passed the symbolic resolution on
Thursday.

Being an extremely sensitive issue in Turkey, it demands a call from
President Barack Obama to make sure that US foreign policy reflects a
correct perceptive of the `genocide`.

In order to influence commission to reject the resolution a Turkish
delegation had gone to Washington. It is being said that Turkey is
expecting the issue will not pass the House for a full vote as
happened two years ago.

Earlier also in 2007, it passed the committee stage, but then was
dropped after persuasion from the George W Bush administration.

Turkey agrees that killings were committed but disagrees that they
were part of the war and that there was no organized attempt to
demolish the Christian Armenian people.

Calling it `an important step towards the prevention of crimes against
humanity’ The Armenian government welcomed the votes.

There is an important part to be remembered that at the time of his
election campaign Mr Obama promised to brand the mass killings as
genocide. And last year in October last year, Turkey & Armenia has
done a notable agreement on stabilizing relations between them.

Turkey refuses to accept a crime that it has not committed, on the
other hand Armenia wants Turkey to recognize the killings as an act of
genocide

Hundreds of thousands of Armenians died in 1915, when they were
deported en masse from eastern Anatolia by the Ottoman Empire.

Thousands of Armenians died in 1915 due to starvation and disease.
They have also suffered sexual abuse, rapes and humiliations by the
troops.

More than 20 countries have supported Armenian to recognize these
killings as genocide

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