TURKEY PULLING OUT ALL THE STOPS TO DERAIL PASSAGE OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION IN UNITED STATES CONGRESS

The official Turkish propaganda machine is going into high gear during the weeks before April 24th to make sure that the Armenian Genocide resolution does not pass in the United States Congress.

Recently, a Turkish parliamentary delegation concluded a visit to Washington D.C. during which they met with some thirty members of the House of Representatives, sending the message home that passage of this non-binding resolution would severely impact Turkish-American interests at a crucial stage in United States policy in the Middle East.

At a news conference held at the Turkish embassy in Washington D.C., Egemen Bagis, a parliamentarian of the ruling Turkish Justice and Development Party (AKP) stated that....

" following the visit of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to New York, Chief of General Staff Gen. Yasar Buyukanit, Foreign Minister & Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Gul, and Turkish parliamentary delegations to Washington D.C., both the Congress and U.S. administration better understood Turkey's sensitivity on the matter."

The Turkish press has also reported that the Turkish delegation also met with executives of the organization AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee), which describes itself as " America's pro Israel lobby." We visited the AIPAC website but could not find any reference to this purported meeting. What we did come across was the following photo of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the much touted prime supporter of the genocide resolution, addressing an AIPAC audience and expressing her staunch support of Israel.

The Turkish press also reports that a third delegation from Turkey will travel to Washington D.C. at the end of this month with the same anti-genocide resolution agenda