Turkish nationalists demand to cancel Erdogan’s visit to the U.S.

Turkish nationalists demand to cancel Erdogan’s visit to the U.S.

06.03.2010 13:17 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "The Committee’s decision is of political nature and
seeks to sow doubt in a Turkish nation in regard to its past, " Devlet
Bahceli chairman of Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (NMP) said,
commenting on the adoption by the U.S. House of Representatives
Committee on Foreign Affairs the Armenian Genocide resolution 252 .

Bahceli also demanded to withdraw Protocols, signed between Turkey and
Armenia, from the agenda of the Turkish Grand National Assembly and to
cancel Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit scheduled in April
to the United States, TRT-Russian reported.

On March 4, US House Foreign Affairs Committee’s passed a resolution
recognizing and commemorating the Armenian Genocide. The resolution
was passed by a vote of 23-22.

The resolution affirming the U.S. record on the Armenian Genocide
(H.Res.252) was formally introduced in the U.S. House of
Representatives by Reps. Adam Schiff (D.-CA), George Radanovich
(R.-CA), Frank Pallone, Jr. (D.-NJ), and Mark Kirk (R.-Ill) in 2009.
It currently has 137 co-sponsors.

The Protocols aimed at normalization of bilateral ties and opening of
the border between Armenia and Turkey were signed in Zurich by
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and his Turkish
counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu on October 10, 2009, after a series of
diplomatic talks held through Swiss mediation. On January 12, 2010,
the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia found the
protocols conformable to the country’s Organic Law.