Pelosi Vows to Push Ahead With Genocide Measure

Turkish General Warns U.S. on Resolution

By BRIAN KNOWLTON
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 — The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, insisted today that she would bring to a vote a resolution condemning the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey nearly a century ago as genocide, even as a Turkish general warned that this could cause lasting damage to a military relationship crucial to American forces in Iraq.
A House committee on Wednesday approved the nonbinding resolution declaring the killings, which began in 1915, , as genocide, and Ms. Pelosi, the California Democrat, reiterated today that “I’ve said if it passed the committee that we would bring it to the floor.”
But in Ankara, the Turkish military chief, Gen. Yasar Buyukanit, said that if the full House passes the resolution, “our military relations with the United States can never be the same,” Reuters reported. “The U.S. shot its own foot,” he told the Turkish newspaper Milliyet.
General Buyukanit’s comment came just days after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan cautioned that bilateral relations with the United States, a key partner in NATO, were endangered. Turkey has recalled its ambassador from Washington for consultations.
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