Friday, March 05, 2010

Armenian Genocide Resolution Advances Despite Obama Push

"Genocide vote irks Turkey

By JOHN D. MCKINNON in Washington And MARC CHAMPION in Ankara, Turkey

A U.S. congressional committee approved a resolution condemning the 1915 slaughter of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide, rejecting a last-minute Obama administration effort to derail it and putting a chill on relations with Turkey."

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