US House Foreign Affairs Committee passage of H.Res 252 – last nail in
coffin of Protocols
13.03.2010 17:50 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ With the adoption of the House Resolution on
Thursday, March 4, in the United States House of Representatives’
Foreign Relations Committee regarding the Armenian Genocide, along
with the adoption of a motion Thursday in the Swedish Parliament,
Turkey’s official denialist positions have been hard hit. But the
worst casualty of all is the death of the Protocols signed between
Armenia and Turkey in order to normalize relations, Cengiz Aktar of
Bahcesehir University said in his article, titled `The death of the
official Armenian initiative’.
`The adoption of the House Resolution in the U.S. subcommittee was
already the last nail in the coffin of the Protocols. Now with the
Swedish motion they can be considered as definitely dead. The result
means Armenia, Turkey and the remaining Caucasus countries actually
all lost.
Today, in the eye of the U.S. administration, Turkey gives the image
of an unreliable partner that is compelled to increase the dose of its
blackmail every time to impress lawmakers. The national outburst
coupled with the Swedish vote will probably add to that.
Turkey, eager to play the mediator for every single conflict around
the world, appears to be grossly failing in its attempt to settle its
domestic problems, i.e. the Armenian, Kurdish and Cyprus conflicts.
Fourthly, in 2007, for the first time after ninety plus years, Turkey
has tried to take a different course to deal with the Great Disaster,
an event that tore apart Anatolia and annihilated Armenians and other
non-Muslims living there. The long-established official policy was
based on the denial of the disaster but hardly found any international
audience. As the 100th anniversary of 1915 approaches, the Turkish
establishment has become more irritated and worried. But with the
death of the Protocols, efforts to find a way out did not give any
sound results. Worse, with the failure of the Protocols, the
traditional, tough, denialist and defensive positions are
resurfacing,’ Hürriyet sites the author as stating.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
