Sunday, October 14, 2007

Crisis brewing in Turkey

Turkey has been concerned about militant Kurdish separatists operating on their border with Iraq. The United States would prefer that Turkey not invade Iraq, but has very few levers to use against Turkey. A recent resolution passed by a House committe would condemn the World War 1 Turkish killings of Armenians as genocide - and as evidence of how seriously Turkey takes this, their constitution forbids anyone from referring to any sort of "genocide" in World War 1. How should the US congress react?

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