The Hill, DC
April 24 2010
Fiornia gets into debate over Armenian genocide resolution
By Bridget Johnson – 04/24/10 02:03 PM ET
Senate candidate Carly Fiorina jumped into one of the most contentious
issues in the House on the day when Armenians mark the killing of 1.5
million by the Ottoman Empire.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee narrowly passed a resolution March
4 to call the killings genocide, which sparked a tiff with Turkey in
which the ambassador was recalled to Ankara for a month.
Fiorina issued a statement Saturday afternoon calling on Congress to
pass the resolution and calling on President Barack Obama to recognize
the killings as genocide, which he didn’t in his Armenian Remembrance
Day statement.
`There are periods in our history that are dark and horrible," Fiorina
said. "They reveal the evil that exists in our world and underscore
the atrocities that humankind is capable of committing.
"It is our duty to acknowledge the contemptible, premeditated crimes
and horrible acts of genocide that were committed by the Ottoman Turks
when they drove Armenians from their ancestral homeland during this
dark period of human history," she said.
Armenian communities are prevalent in central and southern California,
with the city of Glendale hosting one of the largest concentrations of
Armenians in the U.S.
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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
