U.S. House of Representatives recognizes Armenian genocide, backs Turkey sanctions

[Kailash Kumar]

U.S. House recognizes Armenian genocide, backs Turkey sanctions

Patricia Zengerle

OCTOBER 29, 2019

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday in favor of a resolution recognizing the mass killings of Armenians a century ago as a genocide, a symbolic but historic vote likely to inflame tensions with Turkey.

The Democratic-controlled House voted 405-11 in favor of the resolution, which asserts that it is U.S. policy to commemorate as genocide the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923. The Ottoman Empire was centered in present-day Turkey.

The vote marked the first time in 35 years that such legislation was considered in the full House of Representatives, underscoring widespread frustration in Congress with the Turkish government, from both Democrats and President Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans.

Shortly after the Armenian genocide vote, lawmakers also overwhelmingly backed legislation calling on Trump to impose sanctions on Turkey over its offensive in northern Syria.

Turkey accepts that many Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire were killed in clashes with Ottoman forces during World War One, but contests the figures and denies that the killings were systematically orchestrated and constitute a genocide.

For decades, measures recognizing the Armenian genocide have stalled in Congress, stymied by concerns that it could complicate relations with NATO ally Turkey.

U.S. lawmakers have been fuming about Turkey, however, in recent months, because of its purchase of a Russian missile defense system in defiance of U.S. sanctions and, more recently, its incursion into northern Syria to fight Kurdish forces after Trump abruptly announced he was withdrawing U.S. troops from the area.

Turkey views the Kurds in northern Syria as a security threat. Many members of Congress were furious about the assault against Kurdish troops, who until recently were fighting alongside U.S. forces against Islamic State militants.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...e-recognizing-armenian-genocide-idUSKBN1X82LY

 

[Yankee-stani]

Let's wait for the Senate vote on it but this is big shows how Ankara and Washington ties have frayed

 

[dalvash]

Let's wait for the Senate vote on it but this is big shows how Ankara and Washington ties have frayed

The turks just need to spend more money on lobbying.

 

[Nein]

Let's wait for the Senate vote on it but this is big shows how Ankara and Washington ties have frayed

The Armenian losers will now be celebrating. But these idiots cant realise the Americans are not recognising it out of human rights or honesty nothing more than to hit Turkey.

 

[Yankee-stani]

The turks just need to spend more money on lobbying.

They use to be very good at lobbying but Erdogan f.cked it up by kissing arab a..s and ticking Israel off

The Armenian losers will now be celebrating. But these idiots cant realise the Americans are not recognising it out of human rights or honesty nothing more than to hit Turkey.

I mean they been trying to pass this resolution since the 80s when Armenia was just a tiny weeny Soviet Republic lol

 

[Nein]

They use to be very good at lobbying but Erdogan f.cked it up by kissing arab a..s and ticking Israel off



I mean they been trying to pass this resolution since the 80s when Armenia was just a tiny weeny Soviet Republic lol

I dont get why Turkey is not recognising the Native American genocide.

If people want to play genocide politics Turkey needs to do the same with Usa, Italy, Germany, France, Portugal, Russia and others. Its easy for people to critise when their own hands are full of blood.

 

[Yankee-stani]

I dont get why Turkey is not recognising the Native American genocide.

If people want to play genocide politics Turkey needs to do the same with Usa, Italy, Germany, France, Portugal, Russia and others. Its easy for people to critise when their own hands are full of blood.

Every nation on earth has blood on hands humans can be sick sigh no wonder we f..cked up

 

[Nein]

Every nation on earth has blood on hands humans can be sick sigh no wonder we f..cked up

Thats actually true unfortunately.

 

[Ritual]

What is so special about the Armenians? Are they more worthy than others?

Why hasn’t there been any recognition of Belgium’s role in Rwanda, Netherlands aiding Bosnian genocides, Russia massacred Circassian & Chechens in the 1940s. France itself should pay reparations to Algeria.

The list is endless.

 

[masterchief_mirza]

Hindustan in Jammu.

 

[Yankee-stani]

What is so special about the Armenians? Are they more worthy than others?

Why hasn’t there been any recognition of Belgium’s role in Rwanda, Netherlands aiding Bosnian genocides, Russia massacred Circassian & Chechens in the 1940s. France itself should pay reparations to Algeria.

The list is endless.

I had enough of this BS whenever Muslims get pissed over something we bring up other genocides when we dont even care about the let's be honest to ourselves how many of us have prejudices towards Whites and Europeans here guess what Bosniaks and Chechens plus Tatars to a extent are European or white yet on PDF and irl Paks are like using slurs like Gora trashing whites poking fun of them or blah blah same with Africans how many PDFers and Paks irl have a massive prejudice for Africans and Blacks to the point they would not even let their daughters marry off with black men or use racial charges like kala kala or avoid black ghettos in America and UK all nations and former empires be it Islamic or non Islamic have blood on their hands regardless humans are f..cked up tbh self interest folk I myself included sadly the Yanks are the worst these days since they promote they are the bastion of democracy and liberty the only using Armenians as tools so they can court Yerevan from Moscow since its heavily dependent on Russia and Turkey shifting away all geo politics

 

[Nein]

I had enough of this BS whenever Muslims get pissed over something we bring up other genocides when we dont even care about the let's be honest to ourselves how many of us have prejudices towards Whites and Europeans here guess what Bosniaks and Chechens plus Tatars to a extent are European or white yet on PDF and irl Paks are like using slurs like Gora trashing whites poking fun of them or blah blah same with Africans how many PDFers and Paks irl have a massive prejudice for Africans and Blacks to the point they would not even let their daughters marry off with black men or use racial charges like kala kala or avoid black ghettos in America and UK all nations and former empires be it Islamic or non Islamic have blood on their hands regardless humans are f..cked up tbh self interest folk I myself included sadly the Yanks are the worst these days since they promote they are the bastion of democracy and liberty the only using Armenians as tools so they can court Yerevan from Moscow since its heavily dependent on Russia and Turkey shifting away all geo politics

I dont like whataboutism the armenians need to be slapped.

If there is armenian genocide denial its literally the armenians themselves for causing it insteqd of asking for reconciliation, an apology and reparations they stepped it up with punishing Turkey with sanctions along with asking for a chunk of Turkiye which includes kars, van, trabzon, erzurum, erzincan and other cities like adana.

So fck em and their bullcrap if they want land then they need to start a war to gain it i highly doubt even diplomatically the Turks are going to handover land.

In Turkic law, land can only be gained or given away through blood. Armenians can cry and whine about it all they like they brought it upon themselves. If they want long lost lands then they should actually start a war against Turkey to have them back which I highly doubt that will happen.

China and South Korea have suffered much worse with Japan I dont see Far eastern asians putting unrealistic demands upon Japan. Armenians should learn from them rather than crying like babies.

 

[Yankee-stani]

I dont like whataboutism the armenians need to be slapped.

If there is armenian genocide denial its literally the armenians themselves for causing it insteqd of asking for reconciliation, an apology and reparations they stepped it up with punishing Turkey with sanctions along with asking for a chunk of Turkiye which includes kars, van, trabzon, erzurum, erzincan and other cities like adana.

So fck em and their bullcrap if they want land then they need to start a war to gain it i highly doubt even diplomatically the Turks are going to handover land.

In Turkic law, land can only be gained or given away through blood. Armenians can cry and whine about it all they like they brought it upon themselves. If they want long lost lands then they should actually start a war against Turkey to have them back which I highly doubt that will happen.

China and South Korea have suffered much worse with Japan I dont see Far eastern asians putting unrealistic demands upon Japan. Armenians should learn from them rather than crying like babies.

That is the business of Yerevan ,Baku and Ankara for that we have nothing on our plate to offer however I would say of conflict arises Pakistan should give weapons to Baku if Yerevan decides to go to war but we should not poke our nose in that issue tbh

 

[Nein]

That is the business of Yerevan ,Baku and Ankara for that we have nothing on our plate to offer however I would say of conflict arises Pakistan should give weapons to Baku if Yerevan decides to go to war but we should not poke our nose in that issue tbh

Either way i dont deny what happened to the armenians. But it is a shark eat shark world. Either conquer or be conquered.

Our empire collapsed and the armenians were exacting revenge against us. If we did not do these awful things they were going to wipe us out or deport us or maybe make us Turks a minority in our own homeland.

War brings out the worst of people unfortunately. For us Turks and our homeland to survive the armenians were a threat.

I do feel like the assyrians getting massacred was undeserved as the Greeks and Armenians were a threat not them. What can you do the Kurds our so called allies attacked them which led to Assyrians rising up. I think the Assyrians also got manipulated by the Allies of ww1 to rise up and fight the Ottomans to get a homeland in return.

 

[Yankee-stani]

Either way i dont deny what happened to the armenians. But it is a shark eat shark world. Either conquer or be conquered.

Our empire collapsed and the armenians were exacting revenge against us. If we did not do these awful things they were going to wipe us out or deport us or maybe make us Turks a minority in our own homeland.

War brings out the worst of people unfortunately. For us Turks and our homeland to survive the armenians were a threat.

I do feel like the assyrians getting massacred was undeserved as the Greeks and Armenians were a threat not them. What can you do the Kurds our so called allies attacked them which led to Assyrians rising up. I think the Assyrians also got manipulated by the Allies of ww1 to rise up and fight the Ottomans to get a homeland in return.

WW1 was just plain nasty and I blame that war and WW2 for all the mess the 20th century had to endure the end of the Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empire all fell leading to tiny ethnic based states once all these ethnic and religious groups who had no tension all teared each other apart in a orgy of violence that even 100 years later we still or some us recall those nasty pics the use of chemical war fare