Assembly of Turkish-American Associations addresses letter to Obama

The Assembly of Turkish-American Associations (ATAA) addressed a letter to the US President Barack Obama urging him to affirm publicly that the Armenian Genocide Resolution will not be discussed at the US House of Representatives.

According to Sondakika, the letter said as if over 1 million Ottoman Muslims were killed in a rebellion carried out by Armenians in Eastern Anatolia. Signed by the Assembly chairman Gyunai Evinch, the letter also states that the advancement of the Genocide Resolution will impede to the ratification of the protocols.

Panorama.am recalls that Turkey has traditionally rejected the mass killings of 1,5 million Armenians carried out early in the 20th century and always took the criticism of the West painfully. The Armenian Genocide has been recognized by lots of states. It was first recognized by Uruguay in 1965. Later Russia, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon, Canada, Venezuela, Argentina and the US 42 states did the same. The Armenian Genocide has been recognized also by Vatican, the Council of Europe, the World Council of Churches.