Armenian Genocide
Daniels certainly zeroed in on the major problems passage of resolution would cause for U.S.-Turkish relations. Far from redressing an alleged human rights violation 75 years ago, it would fan ethnic hatreds as both Turks and Armenians recall the civil warfare.
If this resolution is what our senators find in the best interests of the U.S. and for human rights, they are either hopelessly naive and ill-informed or completely caught up in double standards in which the Turkish dead are to be condemned and the Armenian dead are to be commemorated. You performed a service in printing this article for the public to see how the Senate spends its time.
CENGIZ SARIK
Laguna Beach
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