TURKISH PREMIER TELLS BUSH ARMENIAN BILL MAY HARM "STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP"
Anatolia News Agency, Turkey
Oct 5 2007
Ankara, 5 October: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told
US President George W. Bush that the adoption of a draft resolution
on Armenian allegations over the incidents of 1915 in Ottoman Turkey
would harm "strategic partnership" between Turkey and the US.
"The resolution would not serve in the mutual interests of Turkey
and the US and it would cast a blow on efforts exerted to improve
relations between Turkey and Armenia," sources cited Erdogan as
telling Bush on a telephone conversation on Friday [5 October]
Sources quoted Bush as saying that his administration would exert
resolute efforts to have the Congress drop the resolution, adding
that president himself was also concerned about the issue.