We can revisit the past---but you can never change it--focus on the future and learn from the past--however--sometimes that is easier said than done.

Mr Coper I was just watching an CNN, two little girls who wrote President Obama asking to help there father. There father put out 300 resumes and no response and evidently will lose his house tommorow. Why would you do that, they (new adminstration) have Irac, Afaganstan, economic melt down, kinapping in Arizona, Mexico drug war, North Korea, Stimulus Package with Repulicans non crossing of party lines, terrosim, tryin to open diplomatic talks with the rest of the world that blames us for the current meltdown, massive kilings in the last week on US soil some blaming on out of work Americans, massive fraud exposed in the wall street you know ther is more. Again why would you air some thing like that which took more than 60 days to create. If you want air something like that, blaming President Obama that he's not doing enough. I think it would just be just as responsilbe to say at the end of those reports to say "he's only been in office 2 months. In this crisis the news can help heal this country that I love or not. UP TO YOU!

I never understood, the chest pounding aspects of the two houses, on something that happened almost 100 years ago. It can't accomplish anything or solve any problems, all it will due is cause friction and resentment. The problems in this century should take priority over
the ones in the last century. The two nations need to work together on the pressing problems we both face now, instead of dwelling on finding the blame on problems in the past. The houses, i beleave have alot of problems in this present situation, in our own country that they should be concentrating on in the first place, rather then debaiting
and forming opinions on something that happen almost 100 years ago in another country.

Sometimes you have to wonder if our politicians and policy-makers are TRYING to fail.

Why bring this up at a time like this? How will this help U.S. – Turkey relations? Do this crap after they like us, not before.

While the Armenian genocide was a major tragedy, everyone in this world needs to get beyond the horrible events of the past, deal with the many problems facing all of us right now, and work to prevent horrible events from happening in the future.

Our Congress should be focusing on the many problems which we are facing today.

Armenians wish the Turkish government would kindly just acknowledge that the Armenian genocide really took place in history from 1915-1917. However, this issue may never be resolved; it has been an issue too long. My Armenian grandfather escaped persecution; he was not an angry man. On the contrary, he was content in being an American citizen where he finally found peace, happiness, and properity.

President Obama asks Turkey to help resolve conflicts of Iran to Afghanistan.

It is sad to see that peace is something as complicated and often a chimera.

Diplomacy and respect go along way to healing past wounds. This is something the Bush neocons knew nothing about.

I'm against genocide but I don't see why we are flirting with disaster by dredging up something that happened almost 100 years ago. Let the Turks resolve that part themselves and lets us keep our minds and goals on the future. It shouldn't be up to us anyway to censure the Turks for past misdeeds.

Another test to see if Obama can control his own party.

what about this assasination attempt on obama that the jeruselem post is reporting, why is no one mentioning this. Kudos to the turks for catching them.

So because it was Armenians that were massacred by the Ottoman Empire it doesn't count as a genocide or a holocaust; its only if its carried out against Jews, mentally ill, gypsies and homosexuals that counts. Obama is a hypocrite, using lawyerspeak to justify his election campaign speeches.

This is very interesting. I believe both countries should settle down and get it together. Their is no sense in bringing up old issues to stir up commotion. We should all try o get along for the best and make it through the hard times. Of course its easier said than done, but things would get better with time.

President Obama, did great over sea's, I was glad to see that he got so much, dispite the fact, that we have no face to ask or get anything from anyone over there, after the mess we have made over there.

I am wondering. Has any other President taken over 500 people with him to visit overseas like President Obama is doing? Especially in this time with the country in it's economic condition. Just another bill we have to pay as taxpayers!

@ RL Wellman.......... are you sure Obama took "500 people with him"??

Or is it........ that the press corps with him is 500!

There are a lot of rumors, you can't believe everything you hear!

Should it Really matter to Americans that President Obama has relatives that happen to be muslims? The President is finally showing the world what responsible leadership looks like. I am proud of the man for his sincere dialogue that may give this planet the open door to peaceful relations that every leader promises but can't seem to deliver. My. View. Keep it rolling Mr. President.

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What happened in Turkey during WWI was tragic and wrong. The questions at hand is if Turkey is starting to be more open about past events and if Turkey and Armenia are making progress in normalizing relationships. The answer to both these questions seems to be yes.

The next question is if this resolution will do anything to facilitate this process and the answer seems to be no. So if things are improving already, why would the US government take action that would only serve to impede the progress that is currently being made?

Why is it that if you deny the Jewish massacre done by Hitler you are an anti-semite, but if someone denies the Armenian massacre/genocide, you are a Congressman? Hypocracy is rampant in the world. How come the Jews think that the atrocities that happened to them is more important than the atrocities that happen to any other group? Raphael Lemkin, a Jew, was the person who coined the word "Genocide" after WWII for the purpose to single out the holocaust that occurred to the Jews is unique and more important. What happened to the Jews is just as important and tragic as to what happened to the Armenians and every other group in the world. We must learn from it and move on to prevent it, but we have not learned from it and we are not preventing it.

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The Armenian war crimes claim can not and should not be resolved by the US Congress. This is a deep wound for both nations that lived together for centuries till WW I. If Ottoman Empre really pursued Armenian genocide, there would not be one single Armenain left in the Middle East. It is true that hundreds of thousands of Armenians died during the forced move to Lebonan and Syria but so did thousands of Turks during the same conflict because of the nationalistic conflict. The forced move was ordered because Armenians were attacking the Ottoman army from behind during the Russian war in WWI. After WW I, the Ottoman officers who ordered the forced migration were tried, and some of them were hanged and some of them were expelled by Allies. On top of that trial, in 1918-1919 Armenian armies occupied Anatolia killing and massacring thousands of Turks as a revenge, but noone is talking about that genocide today. We should not be making it an an issue of politics today. Let Armenia and Turkey open their achives and heal/resolve their wounds together. It is nonsense to bring this genocide claim up every year in the US Congress just to get money from the Armenian fund raisers.

Turkish Armenian border will not be opened until Armenia withdraws from 20 percent of internationally recognized Azerbaijani territory. Turkish public will not risk estranging their ethnic cousins-Azeris with whom they have strong economic, political and cultural ties.
Armenians committed genoside against defenseless Azeri civilians in Khocali by beheading children, impaling pregnant women, selling the internal organs of captured Azeris during the Nagorno Karabakh War. They drove out 700,000 Azeris Turks and Kurds out of their homeland with the help of Russia and Armenian Diaspora. Why dont the world see it? Why our president dont express the same sentiments on Khocali tragedy?

Once we start distinguishing well documented events in history as they best suit our national interests, we lose legitimacy and the moral ground. The only difference between the holocaust, Darfur, Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia, and the Armenian genocide, is that in the latter case, the victims are not even acknowledged as ever existed or perished. It is rumored that Hitler once said, "the world never acknowledged Turkey's extermination of the Armenians, why would they do now with the Jews?" This is not about offending a friendly country, this is about giving a lesson to the world that justice has only one definition and no country can re-define it.

This is quite simple, Turkey should apologize for the genocide against the Armenians and move on. The whole world accept of course Turkey, a few muslim nations in Africa and the US have already recognized the genocide. In fact, 33 states of the our Union have already recognized the genocide. Why not say "sorry" and move on. Damn, this is not that hard.

can you call Holocost non-existent too? Armenian genocide has happened and MUST be addressed. many in Turkey support the position of recognizing this fact and offer at least some solutions. people were killed, we can't just simply say, o , it happened a 100 years ago and we should forget about it!
we need to find middle ground too. we can't just simply walk away neither from truth neither from reality and need for partnership.

I find it very disturbing that the Armenian Genocide can be so easily dismissed, and yet, the holocaust is imprinted into our history books..into our society. Many Americans exist because their relatives escaped certain death at the hands of the Turks, me included. Understandably, this is a very serious subject for us.
I agree, our country has many pressing issues, and I pray that we find resolution quickly. Still, I truly do not think it's right for history not to be acknowledged as a means to an end.
Unfortunately, I do not have much faith in our government, no matter who is at the helm. I find comfort in knowing the truth about what happened, and passing on that truth to future generations.

This entire subject is living proof the democratic congress has the brains God promised a grub worm. What a total bunch of idiots.

Official U.S. Armenian Genocide recognition is decades late due to one important fact, political pressure from Turkey.

If we did not allow our government - for decades - to be continuously bullied by the Turkish Republic, this would not be an issue.

We ridicule the deniers of the Holocaust, but consider official Armenian Genocide recognition to be a casualty of U.S.-Turkish relations. My friends, a civilization was almost completely wiped out, yet our government allows a foreign nation to intimidate us into tip-toeing around the subject. If you don't condemn a crime, you allow it to happen again. Just Google "Raphael Lemkin' and you will find that the man you coined the word "genocide" based this word on the Armenians.

If you'd like to see how far back the Turkish Government's denial goes, research M-G-M's Forty Days of Musa Dagh film.

Turkey's 'growing strategic importance' in the region cannot excuse its persecution of religious and ethnic minorities.

The argument, that "just because something happened 100 years ago, we should forget it" is the most idiotic thing I have ever heard. Should we forget slavery and the Holocaust just because it happened in the past? I am an Armenian and my family lost many relatives during the genocide. However, I am also an American who understands that recognizing the genocide might not be in the best interest of the United States. But, we are tired of the genocide being used as a campaign promise by every presidential candidate, only for the candidate to turn around and ignore the promise when he is elected president. Be honest with us and explain to us why recognizing the genocide will not happen.

For those of you who think that we shouldn't "dredge up" old issues, let me say that the Armenians are not asking for reparations. Just acknowledgement that these events took place. The Turkish government has been bankrolling academic positions around the world for the purpose of sowing seeds of doubt that the genocide ever took place. Imagine for a second if today's German government refused to acknowledge the holocaust? On a personal note, my 103 year old grandmother had her entire family killed during the genocide. The stories she remembers are as heart-wrenching as any from the holocaust. So I take offense when people think these are just some issues from another time. Also ask yourself why Turkey is so against these resolutions? The Turkish actions against the Kurds and the Greeks from the past couple of decades are reason enough not to question their motives for the denial. During the Cold War the US didn't want to upset Turkey because it was a key ally against the USSR. Now Turkey is a key ally because of its supposed secular status. This country needs to side with the truth in this instance. Pelosi and the Dems have played politics with this issue for too long. Bob Dole, had he been elected would have taken the correct step. Let's see Obama honor his promises.

How twisted has this country become, when something as fundamental to our existence as justice can get in the way of so-called interests. The reason the US image abroad is so low is because we are hypocrites. If we can call a spade a spade and recognize the Genocide for what it was, that will make up for the years of failed Bush diplomacy. It is nonsense for us to think that the Turks will come to terms with their past if we simply ask them. Their Penal Code (see section 301) forbids talk of the Genocide. Why, you ask? Because the Turks know exactly what they did and now want to cover it up. If this is ancient history, then in 40 years, when we mark 100 years since the holocaust, I dare anyone to tell the Jews to forget about it. The reason it happened to the Jews is because the Armenian crime wasn't punished, which set the standard for future tyrants to commit race murder. Sorry if the Genocide has gotten in the way of our "interests" (whatever they may be), but it happened, it must be recognized, Turkey must return stolen land and property, to the extent feasible, open the border it closed on Armenia and then, because the US stood strong, will our image be made stronger, and justice, the ultimate goal, will have been served. What is really shameful, and insulting (to an Armenian man and grandson of Genocide survivors) is that the world only cares how "insulted" the Turks will be if we call the Genocide a genocide – what about the Armenians who live with this crime every day? What nerve! It appears that it is OK for an entire race, and nation, of people to be removed from their ancesteral homeland. Where is the Christian community coming together to condemn the annihilation of the world's first Christian nation. To hell with the turks and their feelings – justice is the issue.

Its a shame that this lie is still being kicked around. Armenian and Russia invaded Turkey during WW1 and was eventually repelled by the Turks. Many Turks died at the hands of the Armenian invaders but no one seems to want to acknowledge this. It was wartime, the Armenian opportunists took a chance and lost. Not sure what they hope to acheive in this whole makebelieve genocide issue. Reparations??

The Turkish army is the second largest army in NATO. I think we should show them the respect that they deserve. They have been a good friend and ally.

I appreciate that you have drawn attention to the Armenian issue that is embedded in the administration's attempt to rebuild ties with Turkey, an increasingly key strategic ally of the US. To keep this brief, I just wanted to point out a couple issues which you raised, but which were not given full exposure by your account of the facts.

1) While it is true that thousands of Turkish scholars recently signed a letter apologizing for the fate of the Armenians under Ottoman rule, the government of Turkey, which you posit to be coming to terms with the attrocities of 1915, issued harsh criticism of the letter and even considered charging its original authors with a criminal offense of "insulting the Turkish nation" (article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code).

2) In that same vein, Turkey has a long way to go toward becoming a tolerant and progressive democracy. It was just two years ago when a nationalist Turk traveled to Istanbul and shot in cold blood Hrant Dink, the editor of a Turkish language Armenian newspaper – Dink, a man who had dedicated his work to reconciling relations between Armenians and Turks. Actions like these are clear evidence that the democracy America should expect from one of its strongest allies cannot be achieved until Turkey comes to terms with and admits to its people's past.

Our president promises that America will uphold human rights without equivocation. If that's truly the case, genocide denial should not and can not be a part of that same platform. As for stirring up the US' ties with Turkey, rest assured that Turkey needs the United States much more than the US needs Turkey. A country with the international reach of the US should not succumb to surrendering its foreign policy and moral standing to the whims of one ally.

This resolution HAS to pass. You can not deny that genocide happened and by turning your head you are saying it doesn't matter!

It matters. The USA should stand proud to the world and admit that genocide did happen. What would the commotion be if people were saying to forget the Holocaust happened?

The only country that needs to get over itself it Turkey. Admit your mistakes and move on! The Armenians are trying but you can not tell us to forget about it! It did happen a long time ago but many American citizens lived through it! My grandmother did!

This is time that the USA should step up, as the French have done, and stand behind history!

History must be left to historioans and scholars and not to politicians influenced by various lobbies and interest groups...also, we should focus on creating a more peaceful future for our kids and next generations instead of passing on the hate and endless vengeance

I'm a Turkish born US Citizen and though I have more in common with the democrats, I've never been a "follow the party" person. Having said that, I wanted to bring in a Turk's perspective.

There are already many nations that have officially acknowledged the events that took place a 100 years ago as genocide. To be honest, I've read up quite a bit from both sides of the issue and I still can't decide either way. Vast majority of Turks however will not accept that their ancestors would/could do such a thing since under Ottoman rule, many self governing states (millets) lived peacefully together, including Greeks, Armenians, Kurds, and Jews for a really long time.

I am glad however that there are at least talks now between Ankara and Yerevan and hope that there could be a more "personal" resolution to the issue between Turkey and Armenia without laws being passed by other countries to set such a strong word as "genocide" in stone. I especially dislike the French initiative a couple of years back that would've made it illegal to deny the events as not being a genocide and to call it anything less. These laws/resolutions do not help but rather damage the relationships between all parties involved. What we need is mutual understanding and cooperation in setting history straight, instead of any action that demonizes one race/culture in the eyes of the other for generation after generation.

I think we have far more important things to resolve now throughout the world as people (not just economic) than to put a label on the deaths of many innocent lives almost a hundred years ago. And as a previous poster said it quite nicely.. "We can revisit the past – but you can never change it – focus on the future and learn from the past"

I was very glad that our President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton visited Turkey in general and I think we're finally undoing the damage done by the previous 8 years of isolation from the rest of the world.

Of course those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, but history is best remembered in the 3rd person. Should we really condemn Turkey for the sins of their fathers? The individuals responsible for the genocide are long dead, should we really push a truly moderate muslim-majority state away from us to appease a group seeking revenge for wrongs committed before they were born?

The genocide committed against the Armenian people was horrible, but if one must choose between the past and the future, the choice is clear.

This issue is not relevant and should be quickly forgotten. There is a huge armenian lobby attempt to get it recognize in order to seek reparations, what other purpose would it serve? Perpetual victimhood for the armenians??

I don't see its in Americas best interest to damage relations with Turkey over something that is based on speculation not hard concrete evidence that what happen was a "genocide". It was wartime and Turkey was invaded and repelled the attackers. What else is there to consider?

What happened in the past should be left to historians, not politicians and lobbies.

Sadly we won't recognize our own genocide and even an episode of ethnic cleansing. What else do you call the forced migration of Indians, even acculturated ones, from the East to Oklahoma. They don't call it the trail of tears for nothing.

I live in Fresno in the San joaquin Valley of California, we have the largest concetration of Armenians outside of Armenia,The Armenians here have a lot of political clout and all out congressmen ,regardless of political party support the resolution, if this so-called genocide actually happened or was just part of the war involving the ottoman empire ,would be hard to prove or disprove, for many Armenians who lost relatives the real purpose of having this declared a genocide is related to only thing, they, the Armenians want compensation in the way of money from ,what they perceive a very rich Turkish Government,perhaps they ,the armenians , could be paid off without Turkey ever admitting anything. good luck

What's more important is Turkey's current actions to its minorities, which is not good. Wasnt a famous Armenian journalist killed in Turkey couple years ago only because he wrote about the Armenian Genocide? And Turkish police treated the killers as almost war heroes. This cannot be excused under any circumstances.

Turkey must accept the genocide as it commited it, apologize to the Armenian people and finally start showing some change, some good intentions to them rather than discrimination and humiliation.

I feel sorry for the Armenians who grew up with this inherited hate; spending all their energy and money on a talltale...

I feel more proud of Obama everyday, I am glad my kids are growing up to a better, wiser U.S.; there is a lot to learn from this man!

US should stands for justice and fairness at least under the Obama administration. We should be able to tell our friends and allies when they are wrong, just as Turkey told US their opposition to the war in Iraq...friends can disagree. We should not be afraid to tell Turkey just how wrong are they in denying The Genocide....just like Franc and Switzerland did....yes Turkey was upset. initially...but they are best of friends now ...in switzerland its against the law to deny the Armenian Genocide...
should we deny the jewish holocaust because it happend 70 years ago? whether its 70 or 90 ..or 200 years facts are facts....should we forget what happend on 9/11....and let Al Qaida get away with it....????If they want to be accepted as a civilized nation they should do the right thing.....accept and move on....just like germany...

Take home lesson: if you are interested in starting a genocide, make sure you are in a strategic spot so no one will bug you about it later on.

Or did I miss something?

It is really amazing to read this article and some of the commentary associated with it. Why should the systematic deportation and killing of hundreds of thousands of armenians be marginalized, denied (as in the case of the turkish government) and swept under the rug? I wonder how people would feel if the Holocaust were not acknowledged or even worse, categorically denied or revised in the name of national interest? It is shameful that this nation and its past presidents have failed to maintain several promises on and off the campaign trail to recognize the armenian genocide. For those commentators whose position is that we do not need to resurrect painful events from 100 years ago and that it is time to move on, I say: It is time for Turkey to join the ranks of modern civilization like many other nations and to face up to its past. Only then can true reconciliation take place

I am appalled by people who keep saying that the genocide events took place almost 100 years ago and that it is too long ago to worry about. For more than 80 years Armenian people have been calling for justice. There is no time limit on persecuting crime. The 1st gen survivors were in fear and shock. The 3rd/4th have empowerment. Every single Armenian has a horror story in their past. How can we forget that. How can we let it go! The murderer's must be prosecuted dead or alive. This mass cover-up is what it is a 'cover-up'. As lady Macbeth is quoted in Shakespeares Macbeth. 'Out, damned spot! out, I say! Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.

It is unfortunate we seem to want to sacrifice morality for expediency in this regard. The current Turkish administration is quite regressive in its ways and seems bent on sacrificing many years of hard won secularism, which was formerly defended by the Turkish army. It is foolhardy to kow-tow to the Islamist party Erdagon represents on any matter whatsoever, let alone to cooperate with their historical revisionism in regards to the Armenian Genocide.

It was actually 1.4 million Armenians...its not in the hundreds or thousands...its in the millions

Make sure the resolution details how this started:

A faction of Armenians was agitated by Russia to destabilize the Ottoman Empire.

Daniel Woods of Pittsburgh says "this crap", when referring to the resolution...ignorance such as this is what fails us....1.5 million people are subjected to the first genocide of the 20th century, and Daniel refers to it as crap...this is what is wrong with our society today...will anyone dare refer to the Jewish Holocaust as crap?
Turkey MUST recognize the Armenian genocide, and the US has a huge role to play in it...just like it plays a huge role in every issue around the world...President Obama, now its time you kept your campaign promise...

Ottoman Empire protected their country against Armenian attacks. The country was not even Turkey yet. Armenian wants to extort money from Turkey by crying out genicide.

It is sad to see the double standard within US politics. While the US condemns the holocaust, there seems to be a deadly silence when it comes to the rights of the Armenians who faced the first genocide of the 20th century.

If the world can stand silent at the Armenian genocide, it should also do so with regards to the holocaust, cambodia, ex-yugoslavia, rwanda. An Armenian life is of no less value than any life lost during any senseless mass killing.

I don't think there is a strong evidence that supports systematic destruction (genocide) of the Armenian population. Turkey already opened all of its archives to discuss the matter. Armenians are not willing to discuss the issue with the support of their scholars. Armenians making use of this issue for getting attention from the world and also for the benefit of their economy and politics.

Turkey has always been an important ally. The Bush administration knew that (H and W). Know suddenly the libs act like they have discovered the importance of Turkey when just two years ago they were actively trying to thwart the strategic relationship that would have lft our troops without supply lines by using the nearly one hundred year old Armenian tragedy for political gain. How pathetic the transparency of the Democrats in Congress at that time trying to undermine this important strategic relationship with their non-binding resolution of condemnation against a Government that no longer exists. What an embarrassment that they, including Obama, were willing to throw our troops under the bus to sabotage the surge. Now Obama has the weight on his shoulders borne by Bush and his tune has changed. Please don't pretend the American People don't remember the despicable actions of Nancy Pelosi and Obama and feign enlightenment regarding Turkey.

It is really disturbing to see how easily people can dismiss Armenian Genocide as casualty of war, and just because Turkey is an ally of US, that country should not be made accountable for what they did. Armenians are not asking for more then an apology from Turkey and an acknowledgment of what had happened and for Turkey to stop teaching the complete opposite in schools.
Everyone agrees that denying the Holocaust and the deaths during WWII, would be unbearable, then why is it OK to deny Armenian tragedy? Is it because it happened 100 years ago? Is it because it happened to a small country that doesn't carry any Political influence?
It has been noted that Hitler during WWII said that "No one cared about what Turks were doing to Armenians, then why would they care about what we're doing to Jews?"
So, I hope that everyone stops to think about all the genocides that happen since then. It is not only about Armenian genocide.. We haven't made anyone accountable for Darfur, Rwanda and Kosovo. It is purely a human problem, and in order for us to stop these crimes in the future, we need to acknowledge our past.

The Turks were taking it from all sides in WWI. The Armenians threw in with the Russians against the Turks. If there was an ethnic cleansing going on why would the Turks have relocated the Armenians. It was war- people get killed. 400,000 allied forces and Turks died at just one battle alone-Galipoli. The Turkish flag is blood red because the blood flowed as high as a horses bridle.

I find a lot of agreement with those who suggest that constantly focusing on 100 year old atrocities dims the prospect of building a better future. The same point can be made about African American race relations here in the US. The dogs in Selma were 45 years ago and the slave plantations ended over 100 years ago, And yet many African Americans cling to the victimhood the past provides them rather than creating their own future prosperity. If the Armenians are smart, they will never forget the past but they will also not let it steal their future.

I am Turkish-American. The passing of such a resolution as stated in this article will not benefit anyone at this point. It us purely symbolic.

I think there were deaths in 1915 but no planned genocide. There were no resources for such a systematic event and the empire was near collapse busy with invaders from every angle.

If i was an armenian i would be very offended about these politicians using this tragedy for their own political gain every election.shouldn't we question their sincerity?Well maybe turks should follow the american politicians footsteps and give armenians some wasteland in the middle of nowhere give them rights to open and run casinos and not to forget lot of firewater to try and keep em drunk and uneducated so they don't ask for more.(Sounds familiar)now let us think do we realy have a right to judge anybody.does'nt it make more sense to stop the genocide that is still happenin in darfur.are we gonna let the next generation worry about it?Let the historians figure out the past try and save the lives you actually can rather than talking about it in the future.

As a proud American, I can say I am very pleased to see the relationship between USA and my native country Turkey is again led to a very promising route by the President.

Not to my surprize, this new era between 2 countries is not so much welcomed by everybody, Armenians in particular. I believe the sincerity of some of those -not all- who claim that a genocide happened. Yet, I should say that I also read many sources claiming the history revealed in a very different even exact opposite way: Armenians killed and tortured thousands of their turkish fellow citizens during World War I. I also listened to my grandparents and their story how they escaped from Armenian rampage.

I believe that all sides have their own story and pertaining claims. So why is this problem not left to objective discussion and then the decision of historians as proposed by the Turkish goverment.

Finally, I beleive Armenians could benefit more if they try not to constitute their lives and all country consciousness on this hatred of Turks.

Imagine Germany denying its hideous genocidal past. Imagine if Soviet troops still occupied half of the Czech Republic. No free pass for Turkey. Shame on their intrasigence. Shame on Obama for sacrificing principles in return for some bitter Turkish coffee.

For all of us who do admire our President's demeanor, this is a good time for each of us to extend a hand to another human being who might feel uncomfortable because they are perceived of as 'other'.

This article fails to explain WHY Turkish-Armenian border is closed since 1993.

Answer: Because Armenia has OCCUPIED 20% (!!!) of the territory of neighboring Azerbaijan!

Currently, Armenia is in violation of four UN Security Council's resolutions, which call for immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Armenian armed forces from Azerbaijan!

This is also the reason why Armenia is isolated from all regional energy and other projects, such us BTC oil pipeline, NABUCCO, railways expansion project etc.

If you want to make money with someone, don't you agree you would free their land first??? Azerbaijan was tolerating this atrocity for 16 years now. One day when we snap, please don't call it a genocide... Let's agree now, that it will be a war for liberation and freedom, just like WW2, but on a smaller scale, ok?

Turkish President – Abdullah Gul clearly suggested to all who want to be part of this process and he argued that Turkey is ready to open archive documents in that era and let's see together what was happenned. He is very clear and confident. This is not the desicion who should politician or buracrats make, if we going to make a desicion and this must be done by scientist and historian based on documents and archives.

James Hurt, summed it up the best ..... and I think we all need to constantly remind each other that President Obama has inherited these mess and looking at what he has done so far we Americans should be proud of the choice we made last november.

It is great to see that Barack Obama is reaching out to Turkey and trying to enmesh that country to the West. That must be commended.
However, Turkey itself needs to build bridges and act according to the values of the world it wants to tie itself to.
In this regard it must acknowledge its guilt not just during World War 1, as well as the Cyprus issue, but the centuries of bitterness and horror that Ottoman rule produced.
It must acknowledge its guilt for the massacres of Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians during World War 1, the same way Germany has done with regard to the Holocaust against European Jews and gypssies.
It must also acknowledge and apologise to its former Orthodox Christian territories, now sovereign countries and some of them members of the EU, for the shameful policy of taking children and raising them as Turkish muslims (the janissary levy). In this regard it must take lesson from Australia's recent apology to its indigenous people for its own analogous acts.

My grandmother is still alive, shes in her 90s and shes a survivor of the Armenian Genocide. My family has lived in America for almost 100 years, my relatives are proud Americans who fought in World War 2 and Vietnam. My grandmother watched her parents hung by Turks and Armenian women raped and babies killed by Turks. What was their crime? Being a Christian.

Are you going to tell her to get past it or me? Shoudn't Turkey get past it and apologize for the killing of 1.5 Million Christian Armenians? Why do they teach in schools its never happened? You call that a great ally to America and a "model" to the Muslim world?

Ara The actions of one man in no way indicates the direction of a nation unless he is the leader of that nation. The man who committed that mureder was NOT the Turkish leader.

Second, the Armenians, working in concert with the Russians in an attempt to take and divide Turkish land, were involved in atrocities against thousands of Turks during that time period. Shedding light on one crime, genocide, and not on the other, genocide and mass war time treason chiefly among them, is hipocrocy. If you want to talk about the situation, do so fully not selectively.

Last and most important, Armenia and Turkey are currently involved in one on one talks to solve a whole host of issues and that is one of them. It would be wise of Prez Obama and the U.S. Congress to not weigh in at this point and let them come thier own terms without outside interence.

It is all about the future and thinking positive. We can easily sink in the history, but those who are successful always learn from it and focus on the future.

The real question, are we?

I am extremely happy to see these developments and look forward to the future. BUT, what are we doing to stop the current miseries and in-progress genocide?

(Assalamalykum) Peace be upon you! The religion of Truth is the need of the hour, where every nation on this planet is redy to kill its neighbour. In Islam it is belived that Prophet Jesus (Isa), son of Mary would be sent back to earth by Almighty (Allah) God and he would save humanity. The imperial Europe had fought two world wars, to justify their colonial uphold, Japan was destroyed by USA and Post WW2, Soviet block emerged and cold war began and then it later colapsed, then Islamic Fundamentalism became enemy of Capitalism, USA helped Moslems in Youguslavia but destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan. The divide and rule policy still exist among the Western power.
If Turkey under Ottoman ruled killed many Armanians, so did USA to Japan, so did India to Kashmiries, so did USSR to Afghans etc,
Lets forget the past and make this world a peaeful place to live

I read many of the comments, I am terribbly sorry for the comments without knowing history of this region... please do not make comment unless reading a lot about a history of the region, people of Turkey... many of my friends wrote that "genocide" has happened... if you say so please refer to a document, any clue anything which will prove it or please do not talk/ write about this issue...

I dont know why CNN keep displays Turkey's map just besides the Middle East instead of Europe.Is this a previlage of CNN?Also during the reports CNN shows women wear scarf only 20 percent of women in Turkey wear scarf.

Obama is more open minded and clever than G. Bush.He is not one sided.Therefore he has many different views to the problems.You cant solve problems by force in the middle east.If you aproach with that you get reflection with same way.

Please come and see how Turkey is developed.It may utilize its Islamic modernization to solve problems.Turkey is not an Arabic country and has goodwill for all problems.

Turkey is on the land, once tens of nations lived happily with the Ottoman Empire ruling. When it collapsed forced to WWI penniless, hungry, naked, no arms, powerless at all “THE BEST OF” came up. Russian and British agitated nations started backstabbing their neighbors and their own country not only Armenians but all. I am not defending the forced move which resulted causalities but all should understand the historical facts. Ottoman Empire could not defend Armenians from rebels, looters, angry Turks because had no power that time. We are sorry for all war victims we all suffered not only Armenians. It is a pity that Turkish governments didn’t do anything for the subject just tried to hide the facts that was really stupid. Besides all of you guys, tell me one nation just one of you which is not sorry that what happened in their history. Massacred native Americans, Jewish, what Russians did to many of the people, remember French government in Algeria. People Who Live In Glass Houses Should Not Throw Stones.

It appears that, without any help from the outside, the Turks and the Armenians are themselves on the verge of solving their century-old conflict. They are the ones who are changing their own histories. It appears to me they should be the ones who decide what is "genocide" and what is not. The United States should try to facilitate a peaceful resolution, but not with Congressional resolutions that can only enflame or exacerbate the situation.

There is a very big problem with this issue. I've read the analysis a hundred times: recognizing the Armenian genocide is "basically morally correct, but so impractical that becomes naive".

Such an argument is bankrupt, and speaks extremely lowly of its presenter. Would you consider negociating the existence or not of the Holocaust in order to improve relations with Iran?

The US (like everybody else but the Turks actually) has learned that the way to move forward from such tragedies IS TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEM. The US itself has worked very hard to understand and "correct" - as far as possible - slavery and the genocide(s) of native Americans (although you don't quite call them that, you do acknowledge them in one way or the other). This shows that the argument is disingenous. The US knows in every level that pretending a tragedy didn't happen is WRONG ALL AROUND. But in order to score easy points in a particular game, some people wouldn't care about right and wrong.

Guess what: wrong, immoral, expedient decisions have a tendency to backfire...

get over it.why nobody speaks about genocide recentley happened in gaza,and Bosnia during 1915-1917 war Ottoman Turks and armenians got killed. just like what is going on in iraq right now.how many iraqis have been killed? armenians who live in the U.S needs lobby about more useful things for americans,if they are so concern about it they can go back to armenia,and deal with it there. Dont pull U.S of America in to your nonsense problems.

us and turkey had strong ties/relation until the bush admin
took over the power 9 years ago.but during this period
all was ruined.now we are able to solve how cleopetra died.
if ermenians claim that genocide happenned,
why dont we let historians investigate and try to find out what happened 100 years ago.but they,ermenians,prefer it to be voted
in the congress.we can not change the past but we can change the
future.this dispute can only be solved by two countries (turkey,ermenia)
i fed up that us bringing up the this claim every year.
lets have normal relations as we did before.

Turkey is a bully for sure! It is disgusting that Obama caved in to Turkish demands vis-a-vis the new NATO Sec Gen. The Turks want Rasmussan to apologize about cartoons published in a Danish newspaper (free press!) and yet they will not recognize the genocide of the Armenians. Turkey in the EU? What rubbish! It will be a case of the tail wagging the dog. As for them being a great ally: we needed them at the invasion of Iraq and they showed what great allies they actually are and have suffered the consequences ever since. Turkey has no real interest in cooperating with the EU or NATO all in the guise of extreme Turkish nationalism and religion!

It would make a big difference if people would first search the history and then give their decisions. all historians are allowed to search the state archives but instead of talking about the facts people comment regarding diaspora pressure. Why do not the scientists talk about the issue but the politicians do?
Armenians and Turkish were living togather for centuries but in WW1 the Armenians preffered to take advantage of the situation by attacking their own country in an orginised way. So they stood in the enemy side to Ottoman and they died during war as they killed many others.

the facts speak for themselves(armenians, greeks,etc.); so if turkey wants to continue denying... they are kidding themselves. knock knock....who's there....
the european union! wake up, smell the coffee.
if this was about other genocide victims i.e. the jewish people the u.s. position would be very onesided.
A mature democracy will admit to its mistakes and learn from them(are they a democracy?). in other words be humbled and move on....

We as turkish people are sure that there has NOT been a genocide. There was a riot during 1st world war caused by armenian ottomans which worked with the Allies especially Russia, thus; ottoman administration forced emigration on Armenians. During this emigration, ottoman army were guarding them all the way long. We know aprox. how much Armenian died during this emigration we also know how much of them died because of health problems and how much were killed by Ottoman citizen attacks. These attacks are considered very normal under war conditions as the people who lived under ottoman government protection for hundreds of years were rebelling at that time. Armenians, Jewishes, Greeks or other minorities had more than minority rights in Ottoman Empire. Ottomans never threated them as minorities. We were a big empire with lots of nations living in a harmony. We did not have any colonies. In all the lands we seized, we left culture. We did not burn the cities as Napollion or did not break down the sculptures. We built mosques next to the churches. We lived together for 6 hundred years. We did not killed any nation on purpose. We have legal numbers and reports of armenian forced emigration but no one would like to know about it because playing the armenian genocide card and pleasing your armenian citizens by this forcement is so much simplier.

First of all there was no Armenian genocide taken place almost 100 years ago. it was a big lie. the event was a mass migration of Armenians. during this migration, thousands of them had died tragically. nobody denies that. but it was not because they were murdered purposely to clean the entire Armenian nation! it was because at that time WWI was going on and Ottomans were in the war. Country's conditions was very very poor. people were hungry, poor and sick. it is not very difficult to understand those deaths at this kind of environment.

secondly, this migration was done because Armenian citizens of Ottoman Empire started an upraising against their own nation. they started to kill Turkish citizens, burn their towns, rape their girls. in order to stop this, Ottoman government decided to migrate them. again this was not a genocide! it was a mass migration ended with thousands of deaths.

US government must leave the issue to the Turkish and Armenian historians. they must resolve the issue by themselves. it is not the US government business to resolve this. besides, passing this bill will definitely will ruin the relations with Turkey, which is much more important than that stupid bill.

The US did not right-off the Jewish Holocaust in the name of any diplomatic relations. It didnt just slap the hands of the Japanese ending WWII! It did not forget the gassing of thousands of Kurds in Northern Iraq, so why then should the US forget the massacre of thousands of Armenians? Truth and justice about the Armenian Genocide is long overdue.

This resolution is the only thing in the hand of Armenian Diaspora, to show the world their importance and lobby in US.
2 Countries got together starting from September 2008, working on how to open the borders without damaging any relations with other regional countries. Both sides more or less agreed on leaving this issue to the Historians, and put their efforts on real day issues.
Armenian Diaspora seems not a part of this, and instead of helping this work group, always trying to sabotage.

Now, I know why most people hate AMERICANS, the feeling was never this burning inside me until I read the caomments.

also i'd like to say to people that insists on genocide, we have state records about this event. What does your hypothese depend on? To Armenian people who says their relatives were killed?? Why cant it be a lie said for politic reasons? we have Ottoman records about armenian forced emigration informing who decided that, how many people took place in this organisation, the emigration route, the number of troops who accomplied armenians during this route, the approx number of armenians forced to emigration, the population of armenians before and after the emigration.. we have all these information in our archives and we are ready to share. Are you??

an additional information: Meanwhile Armenian and Turkish historians are investigating and compares the archive informations and will come to a conclusion on the comming days.

This is the subject of the historians.Not politicians or lobby members!

The United States has always held itself up as a champion of human rights and one of President Obama's main campaign points was to reestablish the U.S. as such. One way in which the current administration can return the U.S. to the moral fore is by recognising the mass murder of more than a million Armenians from 1915 to 1917.

Each time a new U.S. government comes into power, the Armenian Genocide issue is raised, and each time the new government will backtrack in the face of Turkish pressure. The main reason for this, indeed the main argument given by Anderson Cooper, is that Turkey is too great of an ally to upset. By formally recognising the genocide, he writes, this "would precipitate a crisis in U.S.-Turkish relations." Notice the use of the word "crisis." What exactly would this "crisis" ential Mr. Cooper?

The Obama Administration should adopt this resolution and send a signal to the world that the U.S. is indeed champion of human rights. The overwhelming historical evidence of the Armenian Genocide should never be allowed to be trumped by a potential "crisis" in U.S.-Turkish relations.

It is interesting how some looks at things in one way. It would have been a genocide if it was only one-sided but Turks have been massacred by Armenians too during WWI. If Turks are gonna say they are sorry, then they also need an apology. These were the consequences of the war. Armenians depend on things happened 100 years ago rather than to move on and work on their country to get into a higher level both economically and politically. That's what everyone else is doing, they should do the same.

President Obama is on his way to be eaten up by "real politics" and that does not look nice. Turkey is not a country any body should build any kind of future for the better on. Mr. Erdogan is only using the democratic formulae to act like a dictator. For him it is power and power for Turkey what matters and he will give a damn on Armenia or the Kurdistan.
How can Obama backing up on a autonomian Tibet not asking his freinds in Turkey to establish an autonomian Kurdistan which could be the beginning to a united Kurdistan with parts from Iraq and Iran. With out that in mind for a future politic no future in that corner in the middle east.

Turkey is the strongest nation in the area, culturally as well as,
being in the "correct mindset " to benefit the rest of the world in chaos today. İt is for good reason that Ottoman's have ruled for a long time in history, as the people who live in this country.

Turkey is scoring victory after victory in economy, politics and there is alot the world must learn from Turkey. The biggest problem Turkey is facing today is the image drawn of being a large army while politically correct, tourism in a beautiful country like here with the longest coastline in the area is not well enough advertised and while Greece gets 40 mil tourist we get 10 !

Image is everything...so please Armenien Genocide will not be good for the image, the big army, is also not giving us a great image. We must get back to the beuties of the countries willing to share all its beauties with the rest of the world...İt is the best place to be in the summertime...And a stronger Turkey will bring only fairness and peace to the world !

E.L.

Kurdish peopil Conceder pkk our savoir from Turkish aggression and occupation .
Mr Obama should conceder basick Wright of Kurdish people before caling pkk a terrorist.
22 million Kurdish people support pkk in north Kurdistan are they terrorist?

If the historians cannot agree that a "genocide" took place, it's tragic that politicians and statesmen for the sake of political currency are willing to risk such significant and irreversible repercussions to the US – Turkey relations.

It's notable that the Turkish president, as I understand it, has on a number of occasions reiterated that Turkey would agree to a joint- committee of historians comprised of Turks, Armenians, French and Americans, and make available all of the Ottoman archives, and that they would accept the findings of the committee as the truth. Why is this proposal not being considered by our politicians who seem so willing and keen to illuminate the truths of the past century at such great peril? I guess there isn't much potential for future political electorage if the task is left for the true historians.

Amerca has several interests in this region. Why should Congress care about something have occured between Armenians and Turkish 100 years ago

Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group as it is mentioned in 1948 UN Convention. During World War 1, the Russians militarized the ethnic Armenians in Eastern Ottoman soil to attack the Ottoman Army and civilians. As a result the Ottomans (Turks) attacked back to the Armenians who were Ottoman citizens as well. There was no plan or whatsoever during the 600 years of the Ottoman Empire where the ethnic Armenians have lived a life in prosperity and with religion freedom. This issue should be left between the 2 countries to deal with, with the help of historians opening the archives, not politicians from other parts of the world. I am sure Mr. Obama will make a very sound decision regarding this issue.

This is a process Turkey must go through to come to terms with parts of it's past. This dialogue reveals facts that had to be resolved a long time ago but for the turks it is like opening pandoras box. Since it is not only the Armenians they have problems with. What about the Kurdish extermination which was another genocide committed in the 30's. This is a part of history that should be addressed as well. Their poor human rights record is a clear obstacle in the eye of their social and political development and the credibility of democracies in general. However, this is a matter of the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice not the US congress. Obama has to be careful not to overextend the arrow of playing the savior of the world. Although he seems to be doing a good job of bringing leaders together we have to carefully follow the implications of his actions. He acts after all as the main perpetrator of US interests. The effects and impact of his policies remains to be seen.

The Armenian problem was created by the states that wanted to attain their own goals by separating the Ottoman Empire. Today, the Armenian problem is a baseless, artificial and designed problem, which is still kept on the agenda by the same states which have different names now, so as to realise their evil intentions on Turkey.

The persons who claimed it is a Holocoust firstly answer these question please?
1)The Turkish side said that "OK we offer to open our Ottoman archives
and Russian archieves but armenians say we don't"
2) More than 250,000 armenian live in Turkey.They are working there, earn money and send it to Armenia
3)The Genocide/Holocoust is an issue to reunion armenians from all around the world. If this issue is finished, The Armenian cannot find any common issue anyway. so they always want to keep alive this issue.
4) The Armenians want Turkey to give its Mount Ararat and some great territories to the Armenia.

İf the only reason is to accept the massacle, Turkey can accept and apologise, but after that Armenians want too much things...

I can tell you that so-called Armenian Genocide never took place in Anatolia,Turkey. Ottoman Achieve is open to all international historians for their opinion. Let the historins do their job and decide. What does House of Representatives have to do with this?

Turks and Armenians peacefully lived in Anatolia until Armenians tried to take advantage of WW1 and invade Turkey and kill thousands of innocent civillians. In fact, they killed many including women and children. As a result, during the war, some Armenians lost their lives and some were displaced and sent to US or other countries. There are thousands of Armenians currently living in Turkey and they are quite rich and happy. Majority of them know that so-called genocide never happened in history.

During the rule of Ottoman Empire, no nation was suffered for any reason in the region. You can visit Istanbul and other cities in Turkey to see people from all religions can freely practice their religious services, including Armenians.

As Turks, on this soil, we have enjoyed religious and cultural diversity for hundreds of years. Mr. President is our guest today as a good ally. I hope the US economy will recover soon.

Why do we only do the right thing when it is self serving? A million and a half men, women and children were brutally murdered and we don't even have the courage to say so, out of fear what our NATO "friend" might do to us? If friends can't even express the truth to friends about genocide, without fearing retribution, what kind of relationship, do we have?

A catholic theologian denies the full extent of the holocaust and the world demands his head, but an entire nation denies that it murdered almost it's entire christian population and we say "well... it's not a good time right time." When is it ever a good time to call mass murder genocide, without offending someone?

Totally agree with sensitive people from all over the world.It was a war by all means,thousands of people died or fled from all sides.What was Anzacs doing for God's sake in Canakkale?
So with all due respect to our Armenian friends(I have quite a few),please stop attacking or making implausible demands from Turkey through extreme exaggeration of tragedies and body count.Turkey has lots of problems today and the clearest danger is bizarrely interpret fanatic Islamism taking over the country while 1 million clueless jetset are living like everyday is a party.

greetings from Turkey. i'm a Turkish citizen and i'm proud for it even if the whole world try to blame us for something that is not true actually.-which is called 'false genoicide'.
We Turks are always open to face with the history,but it is really the Armenians who escape from its past. we can prove our innocence by our historical documents.it's not a genoicide but moving people to somewhere else because of the bad conditions of that place during the World War I in 1915.

Anyway,if you blame us for that , why the whole world can't see the Armenians massacre on the Azeri Turks.They killed most of the children and pregnant women brutally. So why dont you call this as a 'Genoicide' too???? Why do people dont show sentiments against Armenians atrocities to Turks if they are so concerned about human rights.
please be more neutral and impartial while making comments, stop lingering the whole world with such kind of false claims if you dont have some proofs.

I do not understand the need for a resolution. I am Turkish and know that this was a symmetrical act between the two parties, where both sides had casualties. Genocide is a systematic killing of people by their ethnicity or race. This was a war between the two parties in this case, where all the killed were human, from both of the races, which is sad.

Why can not people leave history to historians? If history is defined by legislation, what will come next?

Let us make laws and legislations, resolutions regarding peace, prosperity and welfare.

John Mathis wrote:
"This is quite simple, Turkey should apologize for the genocide against the Armenians and move on. The whole world accept of course Turkey, a few muslim nations in Africa and the US have already recognized the genocide. In fact, 33 states of the our Union have already recognized the genocide. Why not say “sorry” and move on. Damn, this is not that hard." ?

1-Why shall i accept such a blame on my nation?
that was a struggle against russia backed treaters during I.world war where hundreds of thousands from our side had also been killed while defending nation and did nothing more violent than what was done in afghanistan,ıraq,vietnam,algeria,palestine or Hiroshima-Nagazaki.
will your congress ask for the right of raped women in İzmir by greek army, burning houses,murders in anatolia by foreign troops ?
As a turk i know that if those soldiers had not been there my family would now be like palestinians and turkey would be iraq. Even if all the universe passes such a law, we will not betray our history and mark our honourable defence as "genocide"
2-Armenia officially demands eastern anatolia and genocide propaganda is the first step.2nd is payment and land trials.We are not idiot.
Sinan-Turkey

What happened between 1915-1917 at Ottoman Empire was a tragedy no one can change that. But at that time Ottoman Empire was collapsing and all western nations tried to break it piece by piece.
But this tragedy is not same as Adolf Hitler's genocide that killed millions of Jews.
This was well planned to create great Armenia in that region.
And it was planned and organised by France and Britain.
As an Albanian Turkish citizen I think this tragedy has many partners this includes Ottoman Empire, Britain France and Germany all who to blame. Before this tragedy happened Armenians were considered priviledged and many became high ranking military officials at Ottoman times. As Armenians tried to break away from the country they lost this priviledge and this tragic civil war happened.

If this was a genocide, then please look what happened to 500.000 Turkish civilian in the WWI period. Turkey deny the genocide because Turkish citizens didn't die by deportation like Armenians faced. They were murdered.

What will be the positive outcome of the resolution, except the word genocide and maybe retribution. There are also evidence that Armenians were supporting Russia during the war.

Also, question for the individuals who support the passing of the resolution:

- How would this help the current situation with Turkey-Armenia
- How would this help the relationship between US-Turkey
- Who do you blame, Ottoman Empire or Turkey. Two different governments.
- Would Armenia want this resolution, because it will damage the relations with Turkey, which is need?

Why view is that why worry about the past and ruin the future of the two nations who probably could benefit from each other.

LK

Generally i agree with you Larrabee. You seem a unbiased writer.
As to B.H.Obama's visit to Turkey, this is the first time we, muslims, have ever feel sympathy with usa govt. for a long time. I think it stems from Obama's sincerity that doesn't exist in Bush.

Eventually usa understood that Turkey is a indispensable friend for her.

Armenian millitary forces commited genocides in the town of Khojali (Azerbaijan) with the population of 7 thousand azeri people on februrary 26 1992. There were 3 thousand people in the town at the time of Armenian millitary forces' attack. As most part of the population had to leave town during 4 months blockade. 613 people were killed, 1000 peaceful people of different age became invalid during Khojali genocide. 106 women, 63 children, 70 old men were killed. 8 families were completely annihilated, 130 children lost one parents, while 25 both of them. 1275 peace residents were taken hostages, the fate of 150 of them is still unknown.
This is real face of armenian nationalism.

Have you ever thought that why this massacre claims come up every year in congress?
Do you know, Turks and Armenians existed many centuries together without any problem in this region under the Ottoman Empire regime?
Do you know exactly, what was the reason of the conflict occurred at least 100 years ago between Turks and Armenians?
Please, hear the past, see the present and look ahead to the future.
In other words, we must focus together hand in hand to our present problems such as economy, health, education and prosperity.
Let's get back to the point; our problem is how to prepare a good future to our children and live together in a peaceful world.In this case we must leave this claims and solution to the Turkey and Armenia.
Both countries can do better than others.

Armenians are treated equally during 800 years of Ottaman history, and I am proud of it. We can infer this from; unlike minorities of any other place of the world, Armenians brought up to most important positions in the society and goverment. They pretty much happily lived for 780 years and suddebnly what changed the course suddenly? any smarty can think of this situation? It is so unfair to admit that Ottamans did a systematic hatred and killings suddenly in the last few decades of the Empire.

I will tell you what happened. When Ottomans were fighting Russian in WW1, Armenian Army stabbed from behind. The Armenian soldiers dropped their ottoman souls suddenly and merged to russians army aiming to beat the sick horse to death.

Also, While all Ottoman Men were fighting for their country, Armenian insurgents grouped and killing and massacring thousands of their neighboor, friend Turk villages. Are these all lie? of course not, but history is not written by only Armenian Story-tellers; please go to Russian archives, Ottoman Archives, Armenian Archives and do yoru research for god's sake. Don't be fooled by manipulaters.

The two-face Obama..........
With a big dissapointment as no American citizen i see the new president not support his promises.The Armenian's Genocide by Turkey is one of the crucialiest thing in the recent year but Obama is with Turkey(TWO FACE!). The next thing is the turkish invasion in Cyprus in 1974 and the occupation of the island since. They killed many innocent as olguts commitees but obama stills visits Turkey without saying anything.
No Obama, we don't want you here, you are just a liar......
Italy,Greece,Armenia,France,Malta,Cyprus,Bulgaria,Albania and many countries don't want turkey to E.U. so you can't begging anymore.

The Armenian diaspora needs to put its own hate-mongering aside and think of what is in the best interest of its brethren currently living in Armenia. Actual Armenians who still reside in the country want nothing more to end the isolation in which they live. They realize their country is tiny and landlocked and that they need to cooperate with neighboring countries around them. Why is it that there exists an Armenian community in Turkey who are happy to live there and who acknowledging that something horrible did take place in 1915 are wise enough not to blame it on the government of Turkey but the Ottomans? The diaspora in this country should take a good look in the mirror and realize its tactics of spewing hatred for all Turks living in the States and abroad (and acts of violence that often go hand in hand with this) are hurting, not helping, their cause.