Turkey criticises US genocide Bill

Ankara - The Turkish parliament yesterday unanimously passed a motion condemning a pending US Congress resolution recognising…

Ankara - The Turkish parliament yesterday unanimously passed a motion condemning a pending US Congress resolution recognising accusations that Turks committed genocide against Armenians in 1915.

The House of Representatives' International Relations Committee on Thursday postponed by a week the non-binding resolution urging President Bill Clinton to "characterise the systematic and deliberate annihilation of 1.5 million Armenians as genocide".

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