US-TURKISH RELATIONS MIGHT BE DAMAGED BY RESOLUTION REGARDING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
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Oct 15 2007
Iraq
Yasar Buyukanit commander of the Turkish Armed Forces, warned Sunday
that US-Turkish ties "will never be the same again" if the US House
of Representatives passes a resolution ratified by the US Congress
labeling as genocide the World War I-era killings of over one million
Armenians by Turkish soldiers. Buyukanit said that an ally country
wouldn’t act in a similar way.
Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi insisted
that she would bring to the full chamber a resolution condemning the
killings of Armenians nearly a century ago as genocide, in spite of
the disapprobation of the White House.
As to White House Spokesman Tony Fratto, he said that the US
Administration will keep on strictly opposing this resolution that
would cause a huge destabilization in the US-Turkish relations and
that would harm the US interests in Europe and the Middle East.