New York Times
March 2 2010
Turkey: Envoy to Return to U.S.
By REUTERS
Published: April 2, 2010
LinkedinDiggFacebookMixxMySpaceYahoo! BuzzPermalink. Turkey said on
Friday that it was sending its ambassador back to Washington, a month
after he was recalled to protest against a resolution by Congress to
declare that the mass killings of Armenians during World War I
constituted genocide. A committee in the House of Representatives
approved a nonbinding resolution on March 4 calling on President Obama
to refer to the killings of as many as 1.5 million Armenian Christians
as genocide, prompting Turkey to immediately withdraw its envoy. The
State Department welcomed the decision to return the ambassador.