The Democratic-controlled House voted 405-11 in favor of a resolution asserting that it is U.S. policy to commemorate as genocide the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923. The Ottoman Empire was centered in present-day Turkey.
The vote marked the first time in 35 years that such legislation was considered in the full House, underscoring widespread frustration in Congress with the Turkish government, from both Democrats and President Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans.
Shortly after the Armenian genocide vote, House lawmakers from both parties also overwhelmingly backed legislation calling on Trump to impose sanctions on Turkey over its offensive in northern Syria, another action likely to inflame relations with NATO ally Turkey.
The fate of both measures in the Senate is unclear, with no vote scheduled on similar legislation.
Turkey accepts that many Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire were killed in clashes with Ottoman forces during World War One, but contests the figures and denies that the killings were systematically orchestrated and constitute a genocide.
Ankara views foreign involvement in the issue as a threat to its sovereignty.
For decades, measures recognizing the Armenian genocide have stalled in Congress, stymied by concerns that it could complicate relations with Turkey and intense lobbying by the Ankara government […]
The Most Revolutionary Act 
Mentionable could be, that Turkey did evolve – as in, the Movie “Midnight Express” would ideally NOW concern MERELY the Past, the not so unrecent 70s: The Movie accuses rightfully against anti-Marihuana persecution.
Yet, the west via mostly usa and merkel hung on insanely long to ERDOGAN: INSPITE of ALL obviousest PROOF of erdogan’s abusiveness. “turkey” should not be erdogan, nor the worse “güngöl” other fanatic dude, since already erdie erdogan IS a dumbo, as in, WAY too abusive. erdogan’s “brain” is a mix of britney spears, saddam hussein, LOL, and maduro, and just a spunchie of, not too much, LOLio, of SALVINI: Voilà, and shake the Bottle well a-using, a jot of sudo-anti-atatürk as icecubes, as in, erdogan would before a hidden cam behave REALLY sillily to Ice-T: He wouldn’t dare, to joke about Ice Tea, but he’d not ever treat poor People well, other than for show – same as trump. both got a TOTALLY deranged, lastly FASCIST, largely capitalist, thusly demented unreal non-worldview. They ARE ludicrous.
… as ludicrous as a swiss “kesb” authority, which exposes a SEVEN years young Girl in Solothurn since now MONTHS to visiting her EXTREMO-pedofile “father”:
The Girl is suicidal.
Nobody in switzerland is good. they seem to be insane. If You could help, I’d appreciate it.
… amnesty international doesn’t help. they react funnily to when a reasonable Dude calls, who ain’t no squarehead fuckin swine liar. amnesty “international”, the ever-dumbest “org” I ever saw. appalling.
… if that continues, I will use nukes to kill off all people on this globe. period. grittings.
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You cover a lot of ground in your comment, megatronsthinktank. It seems to sum up the chaos of the current world order.
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Irrespective of the sad historical fate of the Armenian People it appears doubtful to me that the US would be a legitimate judge on matters of Genocide!
Cordial regards
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Indeed, well said. Why don’t they vote on recognizing their own genocide against native Americans? Why don’t they vote on recognizing the lynchings of negroes? Such blatant hypocrisy.
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Too true, Schluter. At the same time, It’s really sad to see the US government turn historical truth into a popularity contest.
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I reckon, Sha’Tara, that they would need to stop the genocide and lynchings-via-cop to condemn it. Too much cognitive dissonance otherwise.
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I thought cognitive dissonance was America’s modus operandi…
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My impression is that it’s a transitional tool. With too much of it, people have no choice but to get drunk or shoot up.
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