Turkey’s Opposition Parties Call for Withdrawing Protocols from Parliament

16:02 ¢ 06.03.10

The adoption of the resolution (H.Res.252) on the Armenian Genocide by
the US Congress Committee on Foreign Affairs has evoked a huge wave of
fury in Turkey.

While Turkish authorities threaten Washington by saying that the
adoption of the resolution could harm US-Turkey `strategic relations,’
two large opposition parties have taken advantage of the situation and
are calling for the Armenia-Turkey Protocols to be withdrawn from
parliament amid concerns that those protocols could be detrimental to
Turkey, according to Turkish daily Today’s Zaman.

`As stated by Foreign Minister Ahmet DavutoÄ?lu, Turkey is not a
country that will act under pressure. Under such circumstances, it
would be a display of weakness to keep the Protocols in the
parliament,’ said Onur Ã-ymen, Deputy President of the
Democrat-Republican Party of Turkey.

Referring to the necessity of calling the Protocols back from
parliament, Oktay Vural, from the opposition Nationalist Movement
Party, said the following: `No single parliament can condemn my
history.’

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