Palestine based Al-Kuds newspaper criticized adoption of so called Armenian genocide resolution in the Foreign Affairs Committee of U.S. House of Representatives and wrote that the decision of House committee was like a political theatre.
Al-Kuds wrote that Armenian people have the right of questioning incidents that happened to their ancestors but it is not the duty of U.S. House to label historical incidents that took place a century ago without holding any deep research about the issue. Therefore, President Barack Obama and members of U.S. House should do utmost to prevent so called Armenian genocide resolution to be brought on the agenda of the General Assembly.
Al Kuds wrote, "Other than that, such a decision will damage Turkish-U.S. ties severly. Recently, Turkey and Armenia initiated efforts to normalize bilateral ties and signed protocols which includes establishment of a committee of historians for investigation of tragic incidents in 1915. The decision of U.S. House committee will affect Turkish-Armenian normalization process negatively and will put the relations of United States with Turkey, the country which assists United States in Middle East peace process, in danger.
The resolution was politically motivated from the very begining and that damaged its ethical dimension. Because, if United States wishes to defend human rights and condemn war crimes, why U.S. House does not debate incidents in Sudan, Ruanda, Algeria and Balkans. Turkey is a loyal friend of US since half sentury and still supports U.S. efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Arabian-Israeli peace process. Turkey is a democratic, laicist and modern country."
Stressing that even Jewish lobby quitely supported Turkey's position despite diplomatic crisis between Turkey and Israel, Al-Kuds criticized the attitude of U.S. Congressmen. Calling PM Erdogan to not to cancel his visit to U.S., Al-Kuds wrote that the visit of Erdogan will be an occasion for Turkey to show that the country is able to solve its problems with Armenia without intervention of United States.
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