Monday, March 09, 2009

Will Obama risk Turkey’s wrath?

"Will Obama risk Turkey’s wrath?

Thomas Seibert, Foreign Correspondent

ISTANBUL // Although there are many issues that Turkey would like to discuss with the new administration in Washington, Ankara’s politicians and diplomats will be concentrating on one task in the coming weeks: to prevent Barack Obama from using the word “genocide” to describe the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Armenians almost 100 years ago."

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