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Pelosi Vows to Push Turkish Genocide Vote

She ignores knocks from Turks, GOP, as Turkey fires shells into Kurdish villages

By Wesley Oliver,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 14, 2007 6:13 PM CDT
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(Newser) – Nancy Pelosi vows to take the Turkey-genocide vote to the floor despite renewed Turkish threats and Republican jabs, the New York Times reports. Turkey’s army chief warned today that “military relations with the United States can never be the same" if the vote passes. GOP lawmaker John Boehner called it “the most irresponsible thing I've seen Congress do this year," AFP reports.

Turkey upped the ante today by launching artillery shells at Kurdish villages, ignoring 2 US envoys sent to Ankara to oppose the strikes. Bush fears that Turkish reprisals against the Kurds will block US supply lines and access to a key Turkish air base. Ankara opposes the House resolution because it accuses Turkey of genocide in its mass killings of Armenians in 1915.

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, Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2007. Despite intense lobbying by Turkish officials and opposition by...
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)
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks with reporters during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007 in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks with reporters during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007 in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)   (Associated Press)
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, right, listens to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, left, outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007, following their meeting with President Bush. The Bush administration strongly urged the U.S. Congress on Wednesday to reject legislation that would declare...
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, right, listens to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, left, outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007, following their meeting with...   (Associated Press)
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Latest skirmish in US-Turkish relations could be the biggest yet
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"The most irresponsible thing I've seen Congress do this year:" Boehner
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