WASHINGTON (A.W.)—Official Ankara continues to insist that Washington take a clear stand regarding the Armenian Genocide Resolution, despite the fact that the Obama Administration has repeatedly stated that it opposes the resolution and will do everything to stop it from being introduced to the House floor.
“We will not send our ambassador back unless we get a clear signal of the situation, regarding the draft law of the Armenian claims,” Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said earlier this week during a visit to Saudi Arabia.
On March 6, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the Obama Administration will block attempts to bring the Armenian Genocide Resolution to the House floor. “The Obama Administration strongly opposes the resolution that was passed by only one vote in the House Committee, and we’ll work very hard to make sure it does not go to the House floor,” she said.
Clinton had voiced a similar opinion a day earlier, saying, “We are against this decision. Now we believe that the U.S. Congress will not take any decision on this subject.”
On March 4, Turkey recalled its ambassador to the U.S. for consultations following the vote by the House Foreign Relations Committee on the Armenian Genocide Resolution.
“Our ambassador to Washington, Namik Tan, was recalled tonight to Ankara for consultations after the development,” said a statement issued by the Turkish prime minister’s office. “We condemn this resolution accusing Turkey of a crime that it has not committed.”
Obama is clever,Why should the current Turkish government be held accountable for perceived crimes committed by the Ottoman regime almost 100 years ago?
Sweden has recognized the Armenian, Aramean (Syriac) and Greek genocide.
This is a victory for justice.
We Armenians, Arameans and Greeks must stand together.
Together we are strong, and we have to fight peacefully with one voice.
Long live Armenia, Aram and Greece
Sweden has recognized the Armenian, Aramean (Syriac) and Greek genocide.This is a victory for justice.
We Armenians, Arameans and Greeks must stand together.Together we are strong, and we have to fight peacefully with one voice.Long live Armenia, Aram and Greece
Nice. United in hate. Always a winning strategy. I guess when the nation of Sioux also finally pass a similar resolution, then the victory will be complete. Then what?
Childish and emotional reactions of the Turkish government are just that. Just feeds the frenzy.
what do you mean so your happy that all your ancentors died because of turks???
So Turkey is threatening to not send their ambassadors back to the US and Sweden? Good. Who needs them anyhow? Hopefully, these Turks will never return.
Turks have a highly inflated idea of their own importance. The other thing I am reminded of, especially in the wake of recent articles about the passage of the Genocide resolution by the US House committee, is how crude the genocide denials of the Turks are.
Turks have a standing claim that anyone who “rebels” against them deserves to be murdered. Now, that’s really crude stuff and really ought to be analyzed by those who know Turkish culture best, but let me take a crack: The precepts of Western civilization, as flawed as they may be in practice, are not understood at all by Turkey. Turkey is an imitative country. That is, Turks try to be Western but do not understand, for example, that the West does not accept the argument that you can murder an entire just because, allegedly, they “revolt.”
Using that logic, it would have been OK for Germany to murder Jews if some of them had revolted (which some of them did, no doubt). Turks don’t realize that. They don’t realize how utterly crude it makes them look.
Turkey’s rationale that it can slaughter people if some of them revolt belongs to the culture of the steppes of Central Asia, whence Turks came. I feel sorry for Turks who put on a coat and tie and think it makes them European. It’s truly a pathetic site to behold.
Mr Obama and the panicking arms manufacturers in U.S. should be reminded that Russia and France have acknowledged the Armenian Genocide and Turkey is dealing (buying and selling ) with both of them after initial tantrums.
SMA,
It’s interesting how none of you dashnak Armenians and/or Greeks ever even utter a single word about the hundreds of thousands of Moslems and non-Moslems(2.5M) who ultimately perished as a result of dashnak or Greek treachary. It’s ALWAYS about how you are always the poor victim, and that no one else suffered! It starts to get old real quick.
“U.S. should be reminded that Russia and France have acknowledged the Armenian Genocide and Turkey is dealing (buying and selling ) with both of them after initial tantrums.”
Here is the beautiful part of this: France, which is responible for 1M deaths in Algeirs in an effort to put down their struggle to rid themselves of the French colonial yoke can not bring themselves to make amends and apologize. Sarkozy uttered, and I quote: “What use is there in digging up the past?” I will not even get into their handiwork in South East Asia, or the matter of Legion D”Armenique. We are not talking about some extinct empire, but modern France. Then they have the nerve to pass such resolutions. It really does not add to the Armenian cause in my opinion.
Then there is Russia. A nation responsible for the most massive ethnic cleansings in history. Anyone heard of Great Circussian migration? It was no migration, but a massive ethnic cleansing of Circussions from their ancetoral lands in late 1860s. It dwarfs anything else that happened since then. This demographic engineering continues to this day, many nations, most of them Turkic, have been driven out of their ancestoral lands and made extinct by Czar first and Communists later and Putin now. Struggles still continue in places like Chechneya. I will not even detail what they have done to Crimeans and Ozbeks etc. This is the Russia that has passed that such a meaningful resolution. I would not really bring it up too much.
You are right though, they are rather meaningless gestures, certainly facts remain as facts and not at the mercy of a bunch of politicians. The silly reactions of Turkish governments are truly misplaced.
EVEN THOUGH CURRENT TURKISH ADMINISTRATION DID NOT EXECUTE THE MASSACRES OF ARMENIANS THEN WHY DOES TURKISH LEADERSHIP DENY THE 1.5 MILLION MARCHED TO THEIR DEATHS. THE MASSACRES/GENOCIDE WHICH THE WORLD KNOWS AND SIGNIFICANT HISTORICAL IS TRUE
robert, the turk:
of course many Turks were killed during the years of the Genocide of the Armenian nation – pursued under the cover of WWI…
Turkey, allied with the losing nations was losing lands they had conquored and more, too their military fighting WWI. The victim Armenians had not
arms – brave Turks had taken any arms from them prior to their marches – to death.
murat:
Today the civilized world shall have to face the fact that the cycle of Genocides
shall end. Despots seek their convoluted goals via Genocides – all these
years, perpetrators of Genocides have ‘gotten away’ with murders, slaughters, rapes, women/children in churches which were set afire – no escape;
vilest tortures the demented mentality could devise which included bastinados –
beating the victims soles of their feet until they bled, until they burst – death, the
only release!
Today, 2010, the Darfurians are suffering a Genocide by the Sudenese. Now the
Sudenese are attempting to deny their guilt – ala Turkish denials!! In Turkey, over the years the Kurds too have been facing a Genocide for generations. Turks label the Kurds as ‘terrorists’ – thus enabling the Turks with their cohorts the
Bush/Cheney duo, to continue to pursue the Kurds. Actually, the Kurds are seeking freedom from Turkish tyranny – Ottoman style tyranny.
The cycle of Genocides must be ended. Turks shall admit to their Turkish Genocide of the Christian Armenian nation – for only then will future despots recognize that Genocides shall not be tolerated by the civilized nations of the world – committed anywhere, by anyone, whether a foe or an “ally”…
The cycle of Genocides – the murders and more of innocents – shall have to be ended – OR when/where shall the next Genocide occur…
Manooshag
After all is said re genocides holocausts the worst is that present young turks are brought up with the erronesous idea that they are not culpable for their ancestors..
wrong! the after-nazi Germany succumbed and was beaten the new generation Germans easily accepted and adapted to the fact that their previous government and in extension many a whether nazi or non so had their hands blooded ,thus they were culpable and they ARE AS YET PAYING FOR BLOOD MONEY TO THE JEWS.
Americans also admitted to what they did to the native Americans ad made amends, thus freeing themselves from culpability nightmares…so did others.
Truks,Time to come to terms and get it over with for the sae of your future generations…
g.p