The centuries of bitterness that divide Christian Armenians and Muslim Turks have spilled onto many battlefields, and it seems strange that they should now be played out in the murmuring corridors and committee rooms of the US House of Representatives.
But there is no doubt that the proceedings of the House Foreign Relations Committee in Washington have become the most important modern theatre of conflict in an ancient dispute. At issue is handbags for sale a single word - genocide - and the question of whether or not the United States should use it to characterise the deaths of the hundreds of thousands of Armenians who perished as the Ottoman Empire began to implode under the pressures of war in 1915.The Obama administration can certainly lean on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to make sure the fallout does not get any worse by ensuring that any further resolutions are quietly placed on the back-burnerCold War. discount chanel handbag It remains important now as a bridge into the Islamic world, as a voice on hugely important regional issues like Afghanistan and Iran - and perhaps above all as a neighbour of Iraq which has been happy to host a strategically crucial US air base on its soil at buy handbags IncirlikThe process of establishing diplomatic relations was already proving less than smooth and this certainly will not improve it. The United States and Turkey need each other. Armenia and Turkey are not bound by any such ties of common interest.
