House Seeks To Rebuke Turkey With Vote On Armenian Genocide
Lawmakers are ready to approve a resolution affirming that it is U.S. policy to recognize the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire, now modern-day Turkey.
by Susan Davis
Oct 29, 2019
3 minutes
House Democrats will bring to the floor on Tuesday a long-stalled and controversial resolution that could further inflame already tense U.S.-Turkey relations. Top Democrats say that is exactly the point.
"I think some of us are a little bit annoyed with Turkey, and we want them to know how much annoyed we are," House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., told NPR last week.
Engel said he believes the resolution — which has existed in some form for decades
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