"Genocide resolution clears hurdle amid fierce lobbying
A divided House Foreign Affairs Committee approves the emotionally charged measure, despite vocal opposition by Turkey and President Bush.
By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 11, 2007
WASHINGTON -- The long struggle over formal U.S. recognition that the killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks was a genocide reached a turning point Wednesday, with a House committee calling on the president to "accurately characterize the systematic and deliberate annihilation of 1,500,000 Armenians as genocide.""
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