Posted on 04/24/2016 10:38:00 AM PDT by george76
Armenian-American leaders have urged Obama each year to make good on a pledge he made as a candidate in 2008, when he said the U.S. government had a responsibility to recognize the attacks as genocide and vowed to do so if elected. Obama's failure to fulfill that pledge in his final annual statement on the massacre infuriated advocates and lawmakers who accused the president of outsourcing America's moral voice to Turkey
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It's a Turkish government veto over U.S. policy on the Armenian genocide," Aram Hamparian, head of the Armenian National Committee of America, said in an interview. "It's like Erdogan imposing a gag rule very publicly and an American president enforcing that gag rule." He was referring to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Historians estimate that as many as 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks in an event widely viewed by scholars as genocide.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has faced intense criticism for allowing the possible prosecution of a TV comic for writing an intentionally offensive poem about Erdogan.
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Representative Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the house intelligence committee, said he was "gravely disappointed" Obama would leave office with the campaign pledge unfulfilled. Schiff has introduced legislation calling on the president to urge Turkey to fully acknowledge the genocide
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Russia has two air bases and an Armored Infantry Brigade in Armenia...along the Turkish border. Russia also supports the Kurds.
And this is prima facie proof Obama is doing this for Turkey.
He and Ergodan are allies and co conspirators in the destruction of Western Civilization.
Per President Obama, we must guard against a backlash.
There must not be any islamophobia because muslims mass murder Christians.
How did Turkey assume a position of such power that it is able to veto acknowledgement of historical fact?
Turkey is the violent prone bully that nobody want to rile. They have a powerful military, nukes, large land mass in a strategic location, and an oil pipeline with a planned connection to Europe. They also have a long vicious Muslim history, which makes them an unstable ally. Armenia is just a little pea-pop of a country, shut out by its neighbors (closed border with Turkey), with little to offer. No American president of either party has had the will to stand up to the threats of Turkey. Now with radical islamists running rampant, there is even less willingness to poke the snake.
Should Turkey not stop supporting al-Qaeda’s Syria branch, I am indeed eager to end the job the late Tsar Nicholas II left unfinished. During the World War I , He [Tsar] sought to restore Constantinople (Istanbul) to Christendom and protect Russian maritime security by liberating Dardanelles and Bosphorus straits but fate prevented him,” TASS Russian News Agency cited President Putin as saying on Saturday.
We also advocate Greek sovereignty over the Cyprus, added Putin, and call the Turkish regime to end its decades-long occupation of this Mediterranean island.
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“They have a powerful military, nukes, large land mass in a strategic location, and an oil pipeline with a planned connection to Europe.”
When did Turkey get nukes?
Of course Obama punted. The Armenians were Christians. They don’t count.
Enemy islamist pig-dog øbama.
When did Turkey get nukes?
from Wiki-
Turkey has the second largest standing armed force in NATO, after the US Armed Forces, with an estimated strength of 495,000 deployable forces, according to a 2011 NATO estimate. Turkey is one of five NATO member states which are part of the nuclear sharing policy of the alliance, together with Belgium, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. A total of 90 B61 nuclear bombs are hosted at the Incirlik Air Base (in Turkey), 40 of which are allocated for use by the Turkish Air Force in case of a nuclear conflict, but their use requires the approval of NATO.
Obama is alienating the world, one country at a time. The next president will have something to make an apology tour for.
Well, who'd a thought..?
Turkey is pro Saudi?
“”Representative Adam Schiff””
He’s such a worthless piece of dung. I suppose after 7 1/2 years of obozo, Schiff just REALIZED the pledge obozo made about the Armenian genocide was worthless but he’s going to get right on it now! Hard to believe his constituents had the sense to put Rogan in office at one time.
Thank you!
So obama breaks yet another ‘promise.’
Does this really surprise anyone?
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