'07 US Armenian Genocide Bill news

[Steph]

The best pages are from the turkish media, it's marvellous to see their oh so predictable whining/sabre rattling. They've a sword in one hand and a baby's rattle in the other.
BRILLIANT !!!!!!!!

[Hovik]

Lmao!!!!!

Turks burning Barbie and Spiderman dolls

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Cinemas screening American films are closed in Istanbul. To protest adoption of the Armenian Genocide Resolution by the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee dozens of Macdonald’s employees did not appear at work.

Besides, Turkey threatens to restrict the U.S. use of Incirlik base and seems to neglect Washington’s warning against intrusion into Northern Iraq.

An address of the Turkish authorities to the nation was read in Istanbul streets. Speaking to CNN-Turk, PM Erdogan said “the U.S. Congressmen are not entitled to rewrite history.” “Parliamentarians are called to normalize relations and care about future but not past. Turkey has been a U.S. ally in the region for 50 years. I do not see a reason for undermining these relations,” he said.

Students and trade companies’ employees are holding pickets at the U.S. Consulate building in Ankara shouting out anti-American slogans. Turkey is launching a campaign in “defense of national dignity.” Protestors call to break off relations with the U.S., to boycott American goods.

Turkish media reports that dozens of American toys, including Barbie and Spiderman dolls, were burnt in a shop in southeast of the country, the RFE/RL reports.
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[Joseph]

Turks burning Barbie and Spiderman dolls

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Cinemas screening American films are closed in Istanbul. To protest adoption of the Armenian Genocide Resolution by the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee dozens of Macdonald’s employees did not appear at work.

Besides, Turkey threatens to restrict the U.S. use of Incirlik base and seems to neglect Washington’s warning against intrusion into Northern Iraq.

An address of the Turkish authorities to the nation was read in Istanbul streets. Speaking to CNN-Turk, PM Erdogan said “the U.S. Congressmen are not entitled to rewrite history.” “Parliamentarians are called to normalize relations and care about future but not past. Turkey has been a U.S. ally in the region for 50 years. I do not see a reason for undermining these relations,” he said.

Students and trade companies’ employees are holding pickets at the U.S. Consulate building in Ankara shouting out anti-American slogans. Turkey is launching a campaign in “defense of national dignity.” Protestors call to break off relations with the U.S., to boycott American goods.

Turkish media reports that dozens of American toys, including Barbie and Spiderman dolls, were burnt in a shop in southeast of the country, the RFE/RL reports.
! Reproduction in full or in part is prohibited without reference to «PanARMENIAN.Net».

HAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!

Awesome!!!! Reminds of the Dole Banana event in Adana around 1996. In protest the Turks ravaged Dole Bananas to demonstrate against Sen. Bob Dole's support of the Genocide Resolution. These are the people we are dealing with.

[Joseph]

HAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!

Awesome!!!! Reminds of the Dole Banana event in Adana around 1996. In protest the Turks ravaged Dole Bananas to demonstrate against Sen. Bob Dole's support of the Genocide Resolution. These are the people we are dealing with.

Link:

http://www.info-turk.be/219.E.htm

RIDICULOUS BAN ON BANANAS

Izmir Mayor Burhanettin Özfatura, on February 25, linking the "Dole" brand bananas with Senator US Robert Dole, said that the "anti-Turkish" senator's product would not be sold in chain stores owned by the municipality.
Senator Dole is regarded by the Turkish authorities as anti-Turkish for his sponsoring of an "Armenian Genocide Bill" concerning the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians by the order of Ottoman rulers in 1915, and for his close connections with the Armenian lobby in the United States.
However, a spokesman for Dole Food Co. of California denied the Turkish mayor's claim and their company had no connection with the Senate majority leader. The company's founder James Dole, who died in 1972, was not related to Senator Robert Dole, he added.
The US Embassy in Ankara similarly said on February 26 that they knew of no links between the senator and the banana brand.

[Alexandros]

Pelosi says genocide bill to advance


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Democrat in the US House of Representatives yesterday said she intends to press ahead on a resolution calling the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks genocide, despite White House concerns it will damage relations with Turkey, a key supporter of the Iraq war.

«I said if it passed the committee that we would bring it to the floor,» US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in an interview on ABC television's «This Week.» Pelosi, of California, said her determination to bring the measure to a vote has not wavered even though President George W. Bush and his cabinet have warned the measure could interfere with Turkey's support for US troops in Iraq.

«Some of the things that are harmful to our troops relate to values,» Pelosi said. «I think that our troops are well-served when we declare who we are as a country and increase the respect that people have for us as a nation.» On Wednesday, a congressional committee approved the nonbinding resolution, which was sponsored by a California lawmaker whose district has a large Armenian-American constituency. The House of Representatives is due to vote on the strictly symbolic measure by mid-November. It is unclear if the Senate will consider a companion bill.

Republicans called on Pelosi yesterday to block the measure from coming to a vote.

«Bringing this bill to the floor may be the most irresponsible thing I've seen this new Congress do this year,» House Minority Leader Jim Boehner, an Ohio Republican, said on «Fox News Sunday.» The issue is highly sensitive in Turkey, where it is a crime to describe those events as genocide. Turkey recalled its ambassador to the United States after the committee vote.

Turkey's military chief said yesterday that ties between the United States and Turkey would «never be the same again» if Congress approves the resolution.

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[Alexandros]

Congressional & Administration Leaders On Armenian Genocide

Congressional & Administration Leaders On Armenian Genocide

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Interesting statements by Nancy Pelosi and Tom Lantos.

[gerty]

Its like saying the holocaust never happened because we do not want to sabotage our relationship with NAZI Germany...what an xxxxxxx Bush is...

The man lacks compassion and above all IQ...

[Alexandros]

CHAK welcomes adoption of Armenian Genocide resolution in U.S.


16.10.2007 12:21 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Center of Halabja against Anfalization and Genocide of the Kurds (CHAK) welcomes adoption of the Armenian Genocide resolution by the United States Congressional House Foreign Affairs Committee, CHAK told PanARMENIAN.Net.

“This decision is an important step toward the wider recognition of the brutality that took place at that time. CHAK looks forward to the day when the U.S. Senate follows this historically important decision,” said a statement issued by CHAK.

“Recognition of the genocide committed against the Armenian people is important, as is the recognition of other crimes committed against the Greeks, the Assyrians, and the Kurds before and after the mass killings of the Armenians. This recognition will help us all to have a broader understanding of past crimes and present us with the possibility of a peaceful and brighter future,” it continued.

CHAK looks forward to working for the recognition of the Darsim genocide, in which tens of thousands of Kurdish men, women, and children were killed en mass by poisoning, burning, mass shootings, and other extreme methods in 1937-1938. This was a brutal act of genocide long forgotten by the international community,” CHAK statement said.

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[CRDA-France]

Please what the www addresses of transcripted texts of the speeches of the different representatives of the Committee on October 10th ?

I do not find them. My English is not so good : http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/test...p?subnav=close

Specially for African American Representatives. Gregory Meeks from New York who expressed interesting thoughts about slavery but who voted against the H.Res.106. :

http://www.armeniangenocide.com/showpost.php?p=26324&postcount=10

Meeks could have voted blank, not against. I need his text to analyze his thought, his strategy.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Nil

http://www.crda-france.org/0en/cblacks_armenians/us_house_meeks.htm

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[Gavur]

Please what the www addresses of transcripted texts of the speeches of the different representatives of the Committee on October 10th ?

I do not find them. My English is not so good : http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/test...p?subnav=close

Specially for African American Representatives. Gregory Meeks from New York who expressed interesting thoughts about slavery but who voted against the H.Res.106. :

http://www.armeniangenocide.com/showpost.php?p=26324&postcount=10

Meeks could have voted blank, not against. I need his text to analyze his thought, his strategy.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Nil

http://www.crda-france.org/0en/cblacks_armenians/us_house_meeks.htm

#5129

So far i found this:

Friday, October 12, 2007
4:48:00 PM EDT House Foreign Affairs Committee 27-21 Passes Controversial Armenian Resolution




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From: ATAA <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: House Foreign Affairs Committee 27-21 Passes Controversial Armenian Resolution
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:50:35 -0400 (EDT)



GRASSROOTSINFORMATION SERVICE


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Nurten Ural, President ATAA
Tel: 202.483.9090
E-mail: [email protected]

HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
27 – 21 PASSES CONTROVERSIAL ARMENIAN RESOLUTION
UNDERMINING FAIRNESS AND JUSTICE



ATAA President Nurten Ural, President Elect Gunay Evinch, Secretary General Oya Bain, and Fevziye Manizade, where among 35 Turkish Americans who traveled from as far away as New York to show their opposition to H.Res. 106 at the House Foreign Affairs Committee. (Photo from the New York Times, 10/10/07)

Washington, DC, October 11, 2007 - The House Foreign Affairs Committee voted 27-21 to pass H. Res. 106 (Affirmation of the United States Record on the Armenian Genocide), which characterizes the deaths of Armenians in 1915 as genocide. The overwhelming number of “yes” votes came from states that have substantial Armenian populations, votes and campaign contributions. Indeed, ten of the “yes” votes came from California, alone.

Turkish Caucus co-chair Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL), Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), and House Republican Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO) lead the opposition. Voting against the measure Gresham Barrett (R-SC), Roy Blunt (R-MO), John Boozman (R-AR), Dan Burton (R-IN), Russ Carnahan (D-MO), Jeff Flake (R-AZ), Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE), Luis Fortuno (R-PR), Ruben Hinojosa (D-TX), Bob Inglis (R-SC), Connie Mack (R-FL), Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Brad Miller (D-NC), Mike Pence (R-IN), Ted Poe (R-TX), Illeana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), David Scott (D-GA), Adam Smith (D-WA), Thomas Tancredo (R-CO), John Tanner (D-TN), and Robert Wexler (D-FL). Representatives Ron Paul (R-TX) and Joe Wilson (R-SC) did not vote.

Senior member of the Black Caucus, Gregory Meeks, and Representative from Puerto Rico LuisFortuno opposed the measure, underscoring the strong friendship the ATAA and ATADC are forging with both the Black American and Hispanic communities of Washington, DC. Congressman Meeks highlighted the double standards Congress applies in examining possible wrongs, and lip service the African American community has received on the slavery. “America has not even apologized for slavery – a simple apology!”

Voting in support of the measure were Representatives Gary Ackerman (D-NY), Howard Berman (D-CA), Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Steve Chabot (R-OH), Jim Costa (D-CA), Joseph Crowley (D-NY), William Delahunt (D-MA), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Eni F. H. Faleomavaega (D-SM*), Elton Gallegly (R-CA), Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), Gene Green (D-TX), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Ron Klein (D-FL), Tom Lantos (D-CA), Donald Manzullo (R-IL), Michael McCaul (R-TX), Donald Payne (D-NJ), Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), Edward Royce (R-CA), Linda Sanchez (D-CA), Brad Sherman (D-CA), Albio Sires (D-NJ), Christopher Smith (R-NJ), Diane Watson (D-CA), Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), and David Wu (D-OR),

President-Elect Gunay Evinch, who has been tracking Armenian resolutions since 1988 in Washington, DC, pointed out that the close 27-21 vote was a vast improvement from prior committee votes, such as in 2000 when H.Res. 596 passed committee with a 40-7 vote. Since January 2007, the new ATAA Public Outreach program has established productive communications with dozens of scholars, think tank experts, journalists and legislators. Evinch stated, “More and more people are realizing the complexity of the genocide allegation, the problems of legislating history and a criminal indictment, and thereby harming U.S.-Turkish relations.

President Nurten Ural thanked dozens of members of ATAA, FTAA, TCA, ATC, TUSIAD, ATADC, and ATFA who had visited over 150 Congressional offices in the past two weeks and provided a broader and deeper understanding of the Armenian allegation of genocide as well as the impact of H.Res. 106 on reconciliation between Armenians and Turks and on U.S.-Turkish relations.

For more information on ATAA, please visit www.ataa.org.