TURKISH MINISTER WARNS USA OF NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES IF ARMENIAN BILL ADOPTED
Anatolia News Agency, Turkey
Oct 9 2007
"TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER WARNS AGAINST "ACCIDENT" IN RELATIONS
WITH US"
ANKARA (A.A) -09.10.2007 -Turkish Foreign Minister and chief EU
negotiator Ali Babacan made a warning on Tuesday over a bill supporting
Armenian allegations at the US Congress on the incidents of 1915,
saying that the adoption of the bill would have negative consequences
for Turkish-US relations.
"As Turkey, we have made necessary warnings, but if an accident
happens, relations between Turkey and the US would be negatively
affected," Babacan told a live interview on private CNN-Turk channel
in Jordan.
Babacan also recalled that Turkey had offered to set up a joint
commission of Turkish and Armenian historians to study the incidents
of 1915.
"This issue cannot be decided by ‘yes’ or ‘no’ votes of the
parliamentarians and no parliament can write the history by mere
political decisions," Babacan said.