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Turkey criticizes US for calling Armenians' death 'genocide'
Oct 11, 2007, 16:09 GMT
Turkey\'s president Abdullah Gul (C), the president of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (CEOE), Garardo Diaz Ferran (second from left) and the president of Turkish Industrialists\' and Businessmen\'s Association Arzuhan Dogan Yalcindag (second from right) pose to photographers during a meeting at the Cankaya Palace in Ankara, Turkey on 09 October 2007. EPA/STR
Istanbul - Turkish President Abdullah Gul has sharply criticized a US resolution denouncing the deaths of more than a million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during the First World War as 'genocide,' the Anadolu news agency reported Thursday.
The resolution, which was passed by the House of Representative's Foreign Affairs Committee, was not acceptable, Gul was quoted as saying by Anadolu.
Gul said politicians in the United States had sacrificed important issues for internal political games.
The committee, which has a Democrat majority, on Wednesday night voted in favour of the resolution with 27 votes against 21.
The resolution is now due to be passed on to the House of Representatives for a vote, while the US Senate is also to vote on the issue.
'The said truth is that the modern government of Turkey refuses to come to terms with this genocide,' Republican Congressman Christopher Smith said.
Turkey vehemently denies the genocide accusation.
US President George W Bush had warned against the resolution. He called past events in Turkey one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century. However, historical scholarship had to show whether or not the term genocide was appropriate, he said.
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Just when there's some encouraging news coming out of Iraq. I doubt that the timing of this is a coincidence. Our politicians are shameless.
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THAT`S HISTORYOct 12th, 2007 - 15:51:10
Why on earth some stupid idiot in the US wants to dig up an ancient incidence which happened almost 100 years ago is unbelievable. It is even more ludicrous when the President of this goddamn country gives credence to it.
Where do we stop ? Every single country on Earth has carried out despicable acts, inflicting death or agony on people or letting genocidal war criminals escape ( the very same US ). That certainly includes the saintly US and the self righteous and Godly British - top players in the slave trade and persecution of Catholics during their shameful history.
Why pick on Turkey ? What about the Germans, Italians, Russians, Yugoslavs, just about every country in Africa, Japanese, Chinese, Cambodians, Vietnamese, Ugandans, Rwandans, Zimbabweans, and just about everybody else on Earth over history ? Some of these rulers like Pol Pot and others killed millions with American support.
George Oil Mad Bush and his hypercritical cronies - should GET LOST and play their silly childish games with the CIA and the rest of the American revolting organisations of trouble making !!
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