“This resolution is not the right response to these historic mass killings”
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President George W Bush has urged US legislators not to pass a resolution declaring the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks to be genocide.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the bill’s passing would result in a “significant weakening” of his country’s ties with the US.
The country is a regional operational hub for the US military, which uses its airspace to supply US forces in Iraq.
Turkey admits many Armenians died in World War I but denies genocide.
“This resolution is not the right response to these historic mass killings,” Mr Bush said just before the House Foreign Affairs Committee began debating the resolution.
Such a move, already taken by France’s parliament for one, would do “great harm” to US relations with Turkey, Mr Bush added. It is highly unusual for the White House to make such a dramatic last-minute intervention in Congressional business, the BBC’s Justin Webb reports from Washington.
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