US Senators launch new ‘genocide’ bill

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Two influential pro-Armenian senators have formally launched a new effort for the passage in the U.S. Senate of an “Armenian genocide” resolution, the Armenian Assembly of America (AAA) reported late Tuesday. Turkish Foreign Ministry officials say Turkey would do all it could to avoid the passage of the resolution while US diplomats telling “US would think twice at a time when it needs Turkey on Syria and other matters”

Bob Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey, and Mark Kirk, a Republican from Illinois, introduced the new “Armenian genocide” resolution, the AAA said in a statement. Senators Barbara Boxer, a Democrat from California, Michael Bennet, a Democrat from Colorado, Carl Levin, a Democrat from Michigan, Joe Lieberman, and Independent from Connecticut, Jack Reed, a Democrat from Rhode Island, and Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island, joined as original sponsors.

Meanwhile, Turkish Foreign Ministry officials said this was a very negative development, and Turkey would do all it could to avoid its passage. One foreign ministry official said, “It is obvious that the passage of this would be very negative in terms of the development of Turkish-American ties.” One diplomatic source in Washington said Turkey was in quite a strong position to avoid the measure again this time. “At a time when the U.S. needs Turkey on Syria and other matters it would think twice but it won’t be the end of the world for the Armenians. Because they actually have in mind 2015, the 100th anniversary of what they see as the genocide.”

US administration against the bill

“It is time for the United States to join the nineteen nations including Belgium, Canada, France, Italy and the European Union that have formally recognized the actions carried out by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923 as genocide,” Senator Menendez said.

The first step for the bill is the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where Menendez serves as a subcommittee chairman. This committee is chaired by Senator John Kerry, a Democrat from Massachusetts, who has a long record in support of the U.S. Armenian cause. If the bill passes there, it will come to a 100-member floor vote. The U.S. President and the administration are against the passage of such a bill.

March/22/2012

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/us-sen ... sCatID=358

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I'm a big believer in Karma and sooner or later turkey will pay for what they did to Armenian and Kurds . When it comes to atrocities turkey is ranked in the top 3 and the world will have on problem making them pay for their crimes against humanity . The only question is when .

[alan131210]

N.Kurds can form their own lobby in US congress and do the same for kurdish genocides

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N.Kurds can form their own lobby in US congress and do the same for kurdish genocides

lobby=money which they do not have .

[alan131210]

N.Kurds can form their own lobby in US congress and do the same for kurdish genocides

lobby=money which they do not have .

c'mon heval im sure KRG will and can help

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c'mon heval im sure KRG will and can help

Can ? Yes , but will ? is definitly No

KRG's focus now is on Western Kurdistan and gaining independent state in Southren Kurdistan in the short terms (by short I mean few years ) . Eastern Kurdistan is the next step in my believe considering the hostility Israel , USA and Europe is displaying towards the mulla regime .

The united states policy have changed dramatically in the last few years and the Idea of installing dictatorship in big countries did not pay off at least in the long term , because these dictators used the resources of the country to attack the west like Libya , Syria , Egypt ,Iraq and so on . They were/are puppets of the west , but the puppets were turning to bulldogs and disobeying their masters thus removing them and dismantling the country was the only option . Turkey falls into that category and it is my believe that turkey's turn will come after Iran . Turkey is extremely hostile and even arrogant towards Europe and Israel and the only reason they are tolerating it because the need turkey to implement their plan , but once that is done turkey will be done too . The west will easily validate their action against turkey using Armenian genocide and the Kurdish question , human right issues and so on .