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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (16468)10/11/2007 2:30:59 PM
From: longnshort  Read Replies (1) of 224729
 
Well the dems have sure pissed off the arab world at us. way to go.

Turkey recalls ambassador to U.S. over Armenians

Thu Oct 11, 2007 1:38pm EDT

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey recalled its ambassador to the United States for consultations on Thursday after a vote in a U.S. congressional committee branded killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks genocide.

"We called back our ambassador to Washington for consultations. It should not be understood that we have pulled him back permanently. He will be in Ankara for consultations in a few days," a senior Turkish diplomat told Reuters.

Other Turkish diplomats confirmed the move.

The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee approved on Wednesday a resolution branding the killings during World War One as genocide -- a charge Turkey hotly denies.

Turkey's prime minister will ask parliament next week to authorize a military push into north Iraq to fight Kurdish rebels although analysts say a large Turkish cross-border incursion remains unlikely

Washington fears an offensive could destabilize Iraq's most peaceful area and potentially the wider region.

Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was under mounting pressure to act over the rebels after Wednesday's U.S. vote on the highly sensitive issue of the killings in 1915 of Armenians.

The resolution was proposed by a politician with many Armenian-Americans in his district. Continued...

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