MEHMET Y. YILMAZ: THE ARMENIAN BILL: TIME TO TRACE A NEW PATH
Hurriyet, Turkey
Oct 8 2007
We learned yesterday in an article by Hurriyet’s Fatih Cekirge of the
administration’s "enormous weapon" aimed at blocking the US Congress
from passing the "Armenian genocide bill."
Administration consultant Egeman Bagis, who left for the US for
precisely this business, is reportedly planning on telling US
authorities "If the bill is accepted, you will no longer be able to
arrange logistical support for your soldiers in Iraq through Turkey."
When I heard about this plan, I really wasn’t able to understand
how it was the US Congress was going to be thrown into a panic,
and decide to postpone the voting on the bill.
This is a country which, pushing aside any logistic support from
Turkey for a moment, has been able to invade an enormous country by
lowering everything down from the air.
And the fact that the Turkish administration has not even considered
this, and that they are seeing a useless threat as the only solution
here, only serves to underscore our lack of policy on these sorts
of matters.
So it is clear now that empty threats aimed at the fairly consistent
policies of the US administration are not going to block this
Armenian bill.
We need to start channeling our energy towards arenas which will
actually elicit results, and this includes thinking about the
possibilities presented to us by international law.
But this cannot be all. We need to take concrete steps in the
propoganda war that we have somehow not been able to carry off up
until now.
For years now we have given this enterprise aimed at passing the bill
the slip, by hiding in the shadows of the US administration. Now is
the time, seeing we no longer have the chance to carry on our old ways,
to trace a new path for ourselves.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
