"The Committee's decision is of political nature and seeks to sow doubt in a Turkish nation in regard to its past, " Devlet Bahceli chairman of Turkey's Nationalist Movement Party (NMP) said, commenting on the adoption by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs the Armenian Genocide resolution 252 .

Bahceli also demanded to withdraw Protocols, signed between Turkey and Armenia, from the agenda of the Turkish Grand National Assembly and to cancel Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit scheduled in April to the United States, TRT-Russian reported.

On March 4, US House Foreign Affairs Committee's passed a resolution recognizing and commemorating the Armenian Genocide. The resolution was passed by a vote of 23-22.