Ankara, The New Anatolian

Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an influential American Jewish organization fighting against anti-Semitism, has said that it would acknowledge Armenian allegations on the 1915 incidents in Ottoman Turkey.

ADL President Abraham Foxman said in a statement posted on group’s web-site that his organization had come to share the view that the incidents “were indeed tantamount to genocide,” but adding that the organization maintained its opposition against bringing the issue to Congressional floor.

“We continue to firmly believe that a Congressional resolution on such matters is a counterproductive diversion and will not foster reconciliation between Turks and Armenians and may put at risk the Turkish Jewish community and the important multilateral relationship between Turkey, Israel and the United States,” Foxman said.

The ADL has so far described those events as “massacres and atrocities.”

Source: www.thenewanatolian.com/tna-28379.html