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Turkey Recalls Its Top US Envoy

Posted Oct 11, 07 1:49 CDT in US,  Arts & Living,  World 

(Newser) – Turkey temporarily recalled its ambassador to the US today, the latest sign of strain in relations between Washington and Ankara. Tensions are high after the House Foreign Affairs Committee's resolution to term as genocide the death of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915-17, Reuters reports. "It should not be understood that we have pulled him back permanently," a Turkish diplomat said.

"We called back our ambassador to Washington for consultation," he said. "He will be in Ankara for a few days." Turkey is lobbying to bury the resolution before it reaches a full House vote. Meanwhile, Washington is still fretting over Turkey's decision to seek authorization for a military incursion into northern Iraq, which could further muddy regional waters.

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Members of the left-wing Workers' Party wave Turkish flags as they chant slogans during a protest against the U.S. and its passing of a bill describing World War I-era killings of Armenians as genocide,...   (Associated Press)
Members of the left-wing Workers' Party wave Turkish flags as they chant slogans during a protest against the U.S. and its passing of a bill describing World War I-era killings of Armenians as genocide,...   (Associated Press)
Ban Ki-moon, right, Secretary-General of United Nations meets Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, Prime Minister of Turkey at U.N. headquarters Saturday, Sept. 29, 2007. (AP Photo/David Karp)   (Associated Press)
Turkish soldiers patrol during a routine road control near the southeastern Turkish city of Silopi, on the Turkish-Iraqi border, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2007. A motion calling for a Turkish military incursion...   (Associated Press)
Members of the left-wing Workers' Party chant slogans as they wave Turkish flags during a protest against the U.S. and its passing of a bill describing World War I-era killings of Armenians as genocide,...   (Associated Press)
Members of the left-wing Workers' Party carry a huge Turkish flag during a protest against the U.S. and its passing of a bill describing World War I-era killings of Armenians as genocide, in Istanbul,...   (Associated Press)
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