Members of the US Senate unanimously approved of a bill, according to which California will commemorate the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey April 24. As written by “Fresnobee,” “Arminfo” agency reports, in spite of the fact that legislative bodies of some US states have recognized the massacre of Armenians that occurred 88 years ago, US Congress considers official recognition of the Armenian Genocide may negatively tell on diplomatic and economic relations with Turkey. According to the article, over 500 thousand Armenians live in California, many of which lost relatives during the massacre of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey in 1915-1923. In the course of the discussion of the bill representative of the Turkish Cultural Organization Karachan Mete came against passing the resolution on the Armenian genocide sponsored by Senator Chuck Poochigian. Mete suggested working out a new resolution without using the term “genocide,” which would also recognize extermination of other ethnic groups in the latest period of the Ottoman Empire. In response to the statement Chuck Poochigian said Turkey’s denial of the fact of the Armenian Genocide was nothing but state-sponsored revisionism. In his words, the fact of the systematic annihilation of Armenians in the Ottoman Turkey is confirmed by many historians and scientists.
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