Turkey threatens US troops in Iraq, say pro-Armenian lawmakers
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
ÜMİT ENGİNSOY
WASHINGTON - Turkish Daily News
Two leading pro-Armenian legislators in the U.S. Congress have accused Turkey of "threatening the security of U.S. troops in Iraq" should the House of Representatives even consider an Armenian genocide resolution.
"It is our understanding that senior Turkish government officials have warned that, in response to Congress even considering this resolution, they will close supply pipelines for our forces serving in Iraq," said Frank Pallone and Joe Knollenberg in a Feb. 9 letter to House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos, a California Democrat.
"This shameless threat to interfere in U.S. military operations is absolutely unacceptable and deeply offensive," they said, according to a statement by the Armenian National Committee of Armenia (ANCA) carried by the Armenian news service Groong.
"We are outraged that the Turkish government would put the lives of our troops abroad at risk in the pursuit of its increasingly desperate campaign to deny the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians," said Pallone and Knollenberg. Pallone, a New Jersey Democrat, and Knollenberg, a Michigan Republican, are co-chairman of the Armenian Caucus in the House of Representatives.
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ÜMİT ENGİNSOY
WASHINGTON - Turkish Daily News
Two leading pro-Armenian legislators in the U.S. Congress have accused Turkey of "threatening the security of U.S. troops in Iraq" should the House of Representatives even consider an Armenian genocide resolution.
"It is our understanding that senior Turkish government officials have warned that, in response to Congress even considering this resolution, they will close supply pipelines for our forces serving in Iraq," said Frank Pallone and Joe Knollenberg in a Feb. 9 letter to House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos, a California Democrat.
"This shameless threat to interfere in U.S. military operations is absolutely unacceptable and deeply offensive," they said, according to a statement by the Armenian National Committee of Armenia (ANCA) carried by the Armenian news service Groong.
"We are outraged that the Turkish government would put the lives of our troops abroad at risk in the pursuit of its increasingly desperate campaign to deny the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians," said Pallone and Knollenberg. Pallone, a New Jersey Democrat, and Knollenberg, a Michigan Republican, are co-chairman of the Armenian Caucus in the House of Representatives.
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