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McClatchy Turkish envoy warns against U.S. genocide resolution

Administration, Congress at Odds Over Armenian Genocide Bill -- 10/08/2007

Turkey may cut support to U.S. over Armenia bill: MP | International | Reuters

Turkish Parliamentary Delegation To Arrive In Washington For Armenian Resolution

Nancy Pelosi's dilemma

Semih İDİZ

 

US relations with Turkey at risk

The Bush administration has warned that Washington's relations with Turkey could be endangered and US troops in Iraq put at risk because of congressional legislation that denounces the mass killings of Armenians more than 80 years ago as genocide...

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President İsmet İnönü, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill consult each other at the Cairo Conference (December 12, 1943). The Cairo Conference helped to lay the groundwork for the post-war order in Europe. Photo courtesy of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library.

"Between Friends: Turkish-American Diplomatic Relations" Photo Exhibit - Photos from 1922 to 2006 Illustrate Lasting Friendship Photo Gallery


[WHAT IS THE PROBLEM BETWEEN TURKEY AND ARMENIA] Should the border-gate with Armenia be opened? by HASAN KANBOLAT

The Armenian lobby was not satisfied with the remarks of US President George W. Bush, who used the terms mass killings and forced deportation instead of genocide in reference to the events of 1915 in his regular April 24 statement.

 

Hey Uncle Sam, watch your step!

American opposition in Turkey is not an antipathy built on ideological prejudices or something that cannot be compensated for.

Turkish PM calls Bush on Armenian genocide bill

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has told U.S. President George W. Bush that ties between the two countries will be hurt if the U.S. Congress passes a bill on the Armenian genocide...

American-Turkish Council warns on genocide bill

In a letter sent to members of the United States

 

US should not talk of Armenian 'genocide': Bush
The Economist Turkey and Armenia Genocidal follies The trouble that might flow from an American congressional resolution

WSJ Politics and Genocide Congress meddles in some combustible Turkish history.


Project on Middle East Democracy Blog: U.S. Congress Attends to Armenian and Turkish History of 1915, Contemporary Kurdish Militants


Ambassador Ross Wilson, Remarks at Confederation of Businessmen and Industrialists of Turkey (TUSKON) Iftar, Istanbul (October 3, 2007)

 

Survey: 'Turks feel most threatened by America'

According to a recent survey by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, Turks represent the largest section of Middle-East citizens who consider the US as the greatest threat to their lives, liberty and cultural values, despite Turkey being a NATO ally and a country touted as the type of secular, multi-party democracy that America should foster in the Middle East.
Why Turks Feel Threatened by the US

US Must Not Neglect Turkey By Arthur I. Cyr

Congress must Avoid US-Turkey War by Scott Sullivan

Suspicious ally of the US

When the Bush administration thought after the Afghanistan operation that military interventions elsewhere would constitute a humanitarian duty, it believed Europe would support them as the EU has solid humanitarian principles, even though it doesn't have a good record on the matter.

German Marshall Fund Blog » Blog Archive » Add Energy to America's Relations with Turkey

US Diplomat sends seven messages to Turkey - Hürriyet

The Future of the U.S.-Turkey Relationship
The US has suffered a significant loss of power and prestige around the world in the years since George W. Bush came to power, limiting its ability to influence...

 

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