Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu addresses the media in Ankara March 5, 2010.
Even 95 years after the Armenian Genocide, Turkey and Armenia have a distant and strained relationship.
Posted on 03/05/2010 8:02:24 AM PST by myknowledge
Turkey said Friday it would push on with efforts to normalize ties with Armenia despite a U.S. congressional panel vote labeling as genocide the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915.
Turkish leaders reacted with fury over the approval on Thursday of the non-binding resolution by the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, although it was unclear whether the bill would be considered by the full House.
President Abdullah Gul, whose visit to Armenia in 2008 led to the peace initiative, said the U.S. vote would hurt efforts to bring peace and stability to the South Caucasus, a volatile region with pipelines taking oil and gas to the West.
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Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu addresses the media in Ankara March 5, 2010.
Even 95 years after the Armenian Genocide, Turkey and Armenia have a distant and strained relationship.
My gawd, man, it’s the Obamaloon administration.
A few years from now, no one will give a raw, stinky Obama what these clowns did, signed, or said.
So Turkey, just look the other way and think of things eminating from our side of the ocean as one loud, stinky f*rt.
Turkey is a great country to visit. It’s where the Middle East meets Europe. Ironically, most older Turks hate most Middle Easterners and Europeans. They only tolorate Americans when there is something in it for them.
No normalization is possible until Turks go back to where they came from - the Asian steppes.
Second option: break up that infernal parastate and return whwt they have stolen looted and destroyed to the rightful owners: Assyrians, Greeks, and Armenians.
We still owe them big time for their actions just prior to the invasion of Iraq when they changed their mind and made us find another way to get our troops and equipment into northern Iraq. I never understand why America has such a short memory when it comes to playing tit for tat.
Make an example of a few of these nations that have come to think of it as fun and games to poke us in the eye on the world stage and problems like dealing with Iran would be much more easily solved.
Obama OPPOSED the Resolution.
The Turks are HIS people!!!
GET IT??????
Truly said. They are typical Muslims but of their own “Turkish” insular brand.
Americans really don't seem to get it. I go on and on about this subject and they just parrot what the Obama, Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II administrations fed them.
The Turks are NOT our friends. They are NOT progressive Muslims. They are just TURKS!!!!
The Armenian Genocide began about 100 years ago and continued for some time. They not only murdered Christian Armenians, but also Christian Greeks, Christian Assyrians and Christian Chaldeans - the first Ethnic Cleansing of the Modern era.
I'm TIRED of our government looking the other way when Christians in Turkey, Egypt, Nigeria, Sudan, Cyprus and other places are persecuted by Muslims, as well as other religious minorities while being unduly concerned about other world issues which do not directly involve us, a Country with an 80% Christian majority - despite what the Prevaricator in the White House states.
EXACTLY!!
Once this nation completely avoids its moral responsibilities we are doomed. This nation's not just about money and materialism. We need to be morally honest and help our fellow Christian brothers and sisters who are being terrorized beheaded and abused all over the world.
WE are not.
We need to step back from the brink going over to the dark side. I am no Cassandra but we are teetering on the edge of a precipice.
For anyone interested - here is the breakdown of the vote
http://hcfa.house.gov/hearing_notice.asp?id=1156&show=votes
Member Vote
DEMS
Howard L. Berman pro
Gary L. Ackerman pro
Eni F.H. Faleomavaega pro
Donald M. Payne pro
Brad Sherman pro
Eliot L. Engel pro
Bill Delahunt con
Gregory W. Meeks con
Diane E. Watson pro
Russ Carnahan con
Albio Sires pro
Gerald E. Connolly con
Michael E. McMahon con
John S. Tanner con
Gene Green pro
Lynn Woolsey pro
Sheila Jackson Lee —
Barbara Lee pro
Shelley Berkley pro
Joseph Crowley pro
Mike Ross con
Brad Miller con
David Scott con
Jim Costa pro
Keith Ellison pro
Gabrielle Giffords pro
Ron Klein pro
GOP
Member Vote
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen con
Christopher H. Smith pro
Dan Burton con
Elton Gallegly pro
Dana Rohrabacher pro
Donald A. Manzullo pro
Edward R. Royce pro
Ron Paul con
Jeff Flake con
Mike Pence con
Joe Wilson con
John Boozman con
J. Gresham Barrett con
Connie Mack con
Jeff Fortenberry con
Michael T. McCaul con
Ted Poe con
Bob Inglis con
Gus Bilirakis pro
Why doesn’t the U.S. just butt out?
Turkic languages are spoken by 200 million people; the country Turkey itself is just a piece of the picture.
Someday there may be a political or other union among these countries. We should not go out of our way to position ourselves as hostile.
They’re muslims. They’re hostile to the rest of us no matter what...
The Turks are still defending the genocide to this day, and non-muslims are persecuted in Turkey as in other muslim countries. This is not ancient history.
It’s long past due for the west to grow a spine and object to atrocities that will soon affect the rest of us if we don’t stand up to islam.
How gutless HAVE we become to allow our foreign policy to be dictated by a third rate Islamic nation of desert nomads??
Their unwillingness to condemn the actions of their ancestors is perfectly equivalent to the failure of Muslims worldwide to condemn the actions of contemporary Islamic terrorists.
They consider all non-believers as subhumans, worthy of no attention when they are enslaved, tortured, raped or exterminated.
The Turks who are Muslims are NOT our Friends and never will be.
A country which makes foreign policy determinations purely on the basis of immediate expediency and contrary to the basic tents of humanity is a country in trouble.
I’ll turn it around. Thre are far more English speaking Christians in the U.S. than Muslim Turks. THEY should not go out of their way to postion THEMSELVES as hostile to us.
Why? Oil.
The South Caucasus region is loaded with succulent crude oil.
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