Turkish Daily News 

Turkey’s top business association has released a report on an Armenian bill regarding the incidents of 1915, calling it a one-sided view of events that promotes more hatred, it was reported Friday.

The bill was adopted last year by the Foreign Relations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives but was turned down by the general assembly. The report drawn up by researcher and specialist in law, David Saltzman, for the Turkish Industrialists’ and Businessmen’s Association (TUSİAD), was presented Thursday at a Washington conference on Turkish-U.S. relations, private CNN-Türk television reported Friday. In the report, TUSİAD declared its will to form a platform in which the incidents experienced by Armenian citizens of the Ottoman Empire during World War I could be discussed. The report states there had never been a legal opinion that can justify the 1915 incidents as “genocide,” and those who back the allegations had never brought them before an international court. “The global public opinion is focused on this one-sided view. And the rejection to acknowledge facts and the failure to consider the historical background of the incidents help this view attain continuity,” the report said. “New generations are raised with more hatred and antagonism. Normal relations cannot be realized before these conditions are reversed,” it said.

Meanwhile the Armenian lobby in the United States presented a new bill to House of Representatives urging Washington to pressure Ankara to lift an embargo, which it claims Turkey imposes on Armenia, the Anatolia news agency reported Saturday.

Adam Schiff, a Democratic congressman, prepared the bill, which envisages the United States launching initiatives for the removal of the embargo and the U.S. State department preparing a report for Congress about the incidents. The same text will have to be submitted to the Senate and should be adopted both in the House of Representatives and in the Senate and then be signed by the president in order to be enacted.

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