Posted on 12/12/2019 5:16:41 PM PST by george76
The Senate on Thursday passed a resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide in Turkey more than a century ago — a slap at Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has denounced the effort.
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The bipartisan effort could be the first step in a response to Erdogan for buying Russian weapons systems.
Erdogan visited the White House this fall and held a meeting alongside Trump with Republican senators, temporarily delaying the Senate’s actions against Turkey.
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The House of Representatives last month voted 405-11 in favor of a resolution asserting that it would be US policy to commemorate the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923 as genocide.
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Say what you will but Kim Kardashian deserves some credit for upping the awareness.
Waaaaaaay past time but thanks for doing right. Now about these Holocaust deniers...
It would be nice if the senate took care of important business such as subpoenas for a half dozen deep state leakers/witnesses. Passing USAMC THIS year etc. The TURDle is going to use the USAMC as a bartering tool with Trump to get his wife’s chinese shipping business back in the $$$$.
The issue is the truth. The truth will set you free. The truth hurts. There’s more: U can’t handle the truth. Which one is best 4 us?
Biden tells Iowans: ‘We choose truth over facts’.
The Armenian Genocide is important also because it was the inspiration for the Nazis’ “Final Solution”.
Hitler and others would later point to this genocide and basically say “See what the Turks did with the Armenians? It was widely publicised, and yet not one country ever did anything about it”, and that was their go-ahead
The senate could care less about the Armenian genocide. It is just convenient for them to pass something...anything to look like they are doing something, other than depositing laundered money from foreign countries into their offshore bank accounts.
Scotty I don’t follow that stuff but can you provide details. PM or post. I would appreciate it. I will google it but don’t know much about the tie in to Kim. The Armenian issue I know.
Turkey needs to be booted from NATO. Hell, we need to leave NATO. We need a new version. With real allies. SK, Japan, Poland, UK (maybe), Australia (maybe), Canada (maybe) and a few others.
Turkey is a big NO.
A ran accross a good one here on FreeRepublic from some post yesterday.
I thought the information was monumental and an extreme lapse in education all over the western world.
The issue has to do with WHY was Christopher Columbus looking for new ocean route to the orient. Marco Polo had opened the land trade routes to Asia centuries earlier. What happened.
What happened was the Turks took Constantinople in 1453 and closed Europe’s land trade routes to the orient. Two hundred years later the Turks were at the gates of Vienna.
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