US officials due in Turkey to try to cool genocide row
By AFP

Two senior US government officials were expected in Turkey October 13 to try to cool the diplomatic row sparked by a US Congress vote to label the massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Turks an act of genocide, a Turkish official said.

Hurriyet: Political Prayer, Bill Of Hate

Mainstream Turkish dailies reported that yesterday, when the House Committee on Foreign Affairs passed the Armenian genocide resolution, the Congress began its work with prayer by Armenian Patriarch Karakin II. The Patriarch was also present among the celebrating Armenians when the decision came at the Committee. The three visiting Turkish Parliamentarians from AKP, CHP and MHP as well as the Turkish Ambassador Nabi Sensoy also watched the debate and the vote.

Source: Hurriyet, Turkey, October 11, 2007 VIA

Turkey's PM says US relations in danger

Reuters UK - UK
By Emma Ross-Thomas ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday relations between Turkey and the United States are in danger over a ...

U.S. military looking at alternatives in case Turkey cuts access - CNN.com

Pentagon: No Signs of Turkish Offensive

The Associated Press -
As tensions mount between the US and Turkey over a congressional resolution condemning the killings of Armenians a century ago as genocide, the Pentagon is ...

Armenian premier to visit Washington amid new tensions with Turkey ...

International Herald Tribune - France
The timing of Prime Minister Serge Sarkisian's visit could cause further tensions with Turkey. Ankara has lashed out at Armenia for encouraging the US House ...

Informed Comment: Turkish Press reaction to Armenian Resolution

AFP: Politics drive US Armenia resolution

The genocide vote: Now is not the time - Los Angeles Times

Timing of genocide resolution questioned - CNN.com

Armenian Lobby's Triumph: Genocide Resolution Risks Shattering Relations with Turkey - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News

BBC NEWS | Europe | Press divided over Armenian resolution

The Associated Press: Israel Worried by Turk-Armenian Debate

Cartoon In Lebanese Paper On "Turkey And Northern Iraq"

Source: Al-Mustaqbal, Lebanon, October 11, 2007 VIA

www.kansascity.com | 10/11/2007 | Q&A about repercussions over Turkish genocide resolution

FOXNews.com - Turkish Leaders, Press Condemn Armenian Genocide Resolution Passed by U.S. Lawmakers - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News

Armenian Genocide Bill Historically Credible But Politically Misguided, Duke University Scholar Says

Dana Milbank - Belatedly, the House's History Lesson - washingtonpost.com

Turkey and America | Judging genocide | Economist.com

House Panel Raises Furor on Armenian Genocide - New York Times

The Elephant Bar: The Idiots Who Rule Us

With all the problems that we have in the Middle East, the last thing we need is Congress to stir up something that happened in 1915. It happened between Armenia and Turkey. It happened almost one hundred years ago and is no better or worse than thousands of other things that have happened on the sorry side of human history. It is the usual story of tribal hatred and the consequences. It was never American business. What is American business is the hornets nest that was just showing signs of settling down in Iraq and the area. Twenty seven of the cranial rectally challenged members of the US Congress decided the timing was perfect to interject their wisdom into the long dispute between Armenia and Turkey. I doubt more than six of them could find Armenia and Turkey on the map but never mind they followed Tom Lantos, the pious, into this stupid charade."

The Armenian Genocide As a Case Study in Today's Middle East Relations

Vatan: 27 Stupid Americans

Turkish mainstream daily Vatan wrote in its front page, "27 stupid Americans accepted the so-called genocide resolution; they chose to wound the greatest ally of the U.S. in a problem region, for a handful of Armenian votes"VIA

 Reckless resolution: A Turkish-Armenian feud has no place in Congress

Turkey: Between Iraq & A Hard Place
By Shaun Mullen
It's again Turkey's turn for an ugly chapter in its history it simply cannot wish away by pretending it didn't happen: The deaths of all those Armenians as a result of deportations and systematic killings in the waning days of the ...

It Is Time For Turkey To Come Clean
By Roy El Saghir
And yet the Republic of Turkey steadfastly rejects the characterization of the events as genocide. Unfortunately the President of the United States is in complete agreement with the Turkish government. What was the Bush administration's ...

Who Lost Turkey?
By Juan Cole(Juan Cole)
Then the Kurdistan Regional Authority gave safe haven to 3000 to 5000 Kurdish guerrillas from eastern Anatolia in Turkey who have been killing Turks and blowing up things, reviving violence that had subsided in the early zeroes. ...

Cold Turkey
By sheikyermami
There is no longer a need for Turkey's help in confronting Russia, which, while it has reverted to unpleasantness and despotism, is not the menace it once was. And Turkey is not quite so important a place for listening-posts and other ...

Turkey: "The Democrats Are Harming The Future Of The United States"
By Pat Dollard
Analysts say Turkey could be less restrained about defying the United States in an invasion of Kurdistan because of a congressional committee's approval of a resolution labeling the mass killings of Armenians around the time of World ...

A quest cuts across the generations
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
HRANT ZEITOUNTZIAN: A survivor of the Armenian genocide in Turkey, the 97-year-old now lives in Pasadena. Local Armenians are optimistic as US inches closer ...

ready to rage

by Galip

the king of off-road, ktm motorcycles of austria have a slogan: ready to race. you can take the bike off the rack, and push it straight to the track...

i propose a similar slogan describing the political attitude of turks: ready to rage!..

the typical collective or singular primary reaction to any adverse stimulus in this country and for our fellows is instant fury and displaying a disposition toward solutions favoring violence. the same was true last week when the pkk ambushed and killed 13 turkish soldiers (then, two more elsewhere) and later the u.s. house foreign relations committee adopted the armenian genocide bill. in the former case, preparations were hastened to lay the legal background for military incursions into iraq's kurdish territory; in the latter, threats were hurled at washington to hamper the u.s. war effort in iraq.........

Talk Turkey Moving On . . .

by Metin

If Turkey simply had dismissed this non-binding resolution's possible passage instead of condemning it so loudly and thereby legitimizing its relevancy, as I often suggest when I ask for restraint of the Turks (who are born with the 'reactionary' gene), the average American's, (as well as the global community's), attention span would not have outlived the discussion of the 'current'...

Whose Genocide Counts?

by Metin

Here is what Nicholas von Hoffman wrote in The Nation. "Thank God! We have been waiting almost 100 years for the House Foreign Affairs Committee to do it and at long last they did, those statesmen and stateswomen! They voted to declare the 1915 massacres of Armenians by the Turks an official genocide. Now, don't you feel better? Isn't the...