US House Foreign Affairs Committee passage of H.Res 252 - last nail in coffin of Protocols

PanARMENIAN.Net - With the adoption of the House Resolution on Thursday, March 4, in the United States House of Representatives' Foreign Relations Committee regarding the Armenian Genocide, along with the adoption of a motion Thursday in the Swedish Parliament, Turkey's official denialist positions have been hard hit. But the worst casualty of all is the death of the Protocols signed between Armenia and Turkey in order to normalize relations, Cengiz Aktar of Bahcesehir University said in his article, titled “The death of the official Armenian initiative”.

“The adoption of the House Resolution in the U.S. subcommittee was already the last nail in the coffin of the Protocols. Now with the Swedish motion they can be considered as definitely dead. The result means Armenia, Turkey and the remaining Caucasus countries actually all lost. Today, in the eye of the U.S. administration, Turkey gives the image of an unreliable partner that is compelled to increase the dose of its blackmail every time to impress lawmakers. The national outburst coupled with the Swedish vote will probably add to that.

Turkey, eager to play the mediator for every single conflict around the world, appears to be grossly failing in its attempt to settle its domestic problems, i.e. the Armenian, Kurdish and Cyprus conflicts.

Fourthly, in 2007, for the first time after ninety plus years, Turkey has tried to take a different course to deal with the Great Disaster, an event that tore apart Anatolia and annihilated Armenians and other non-Muslims living there. The long-established official policy was based on the denial of the disaster but hardly found any international audience. As the 100th anniversary of 1915 approaches, the Turkish establishment has become more irritated and worried. But with the death of the Protocols, efforts to find a way out did not give any sound results. Worse, with the failure of the Protocols, the traditional, tough, denialist and defensive positions are resurfacing,” Hürriyet sites the author as stating.