Washington Post calls on Turkey "not to take seriously" Armenian Genocide bill

PanARMENIAN.Net - A recent article in The Washington Post newspaper has called on Turkey not to take seriously the U.S. Congressional vote on the non-binding resolution on the Armenian Genocide bill.



Post writer Jackson Diehl in the article titled "The House's Ottoman Agenda" asserts that Turkey's behavior regarding the controversial bill should be "like one of the Western democracies," and that Turkey should simply "shrug its shoulders" and move on with regards to the bill. Diehl also notes in his article that no one much will place importance on the Armenian bill, pointing to another non-binding resolution passed by the House of Representatives against the Iraqi war as an example.



Dielh also uses his article to point to the estimated 70-80 ethnic Armenian voters who live in U.S. Congressman Adam Schiff's district, a fact he asserts helped shaped Schiff's heavy involvement in the writing of the bill. Diehl also recalls that many other ethnically Armenian voters live in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's district; Pelosi has reiterated her support for the bill many times.



At one point in his article, Diehl touches on what he portrays as the lack of knowledge on the part of most House of Representatives members to even decide on such a long past subject as the Armenian Genocide. Says Diehl, "Just think, 435 members of the House of Representatives, most of whom don't even know the difference between a Sunni and a Shiite, will decide on whether or not to approve of Adam Schiff's version of events which occurred 92 years ago in the northeast region of Turkey."