On Wednesday morning, Turkey summoned the US ambassador to the country over the resolution.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/...054815944.html
US House overwhelmingly votes to recognize Armenian genocide
The US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to recognize the Armenian genocide of a century ago, stepping into a fraught historical debate at a particularly tense moment for the US-Turkey relationship.
The House voted 405-11 in favor of the resolution, which is not legally binding, to formally recognize the systematic killing of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians under the Ottoman Empire in 1915, modern-day Turkey, as a “genocide”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...enian-genocide
On Wednesday morning, Turkey summoned the US ambassador to the country over the resolution.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/...054815944.html
Let's see how Cenk Uygur and "The Young Turks" react
Undercuts her moral authority, but what about those 12 red teamers that voted nay?
not at all, if you know why she voted present.
Has Trump said anything about it?
Omar’s “present” vote has sparked more coverage in the past 36 hours—of which this column is admittedly part—than the Republicans who voted “nay,” the GOP senators who aren’t even voting, or Trump’s complicity in Turkey’s ongoing massacre of Kurds. Good-faith critics on the left are concerned about “academic consensus” and “whataboutism,” but of course bad-faith critics on the American right are having a field day. As has been true since she took office, national right-wing media is eager to portray Omar as non-American, and now have fixated on a meeting Omar held with the Turkish president in 2017, alleging that she’s a foreign agent.
That’s not what’s going on. Omar does not operate like other politicians. Her commitment to principle is one of her great strengths, but it creates the conditions for what seem like unforced errors. She’s bringing Bernie Sanders to Minnesota this weekend, and I wonder if this vote will overshadow it. More important, Armenians are upset. I spoke over the phone with the Rev. Tadeos Barseghyan, a pastor at St. Sahag Armenian Church in St. Paul. The church is located in the adjacent district to Omar’s, but serves Armenians throughout the region (including neighboring states). Barseghyan told me that the vote was long past due, but that it’s “wonderful to see that the country that we all respect and love officially recognizes and hears the voices of our people.”
I think it does. Her underlying message, while laudable, was not effectively communicated and fell into a weird, nihisltic relativism that all genocide is somehow the same.
Tadeos added, “Denying the Armenian genocide is denying gravity.” And I’m sure Omar agrees. She voted “present” to make a statement against a foreign policy of convenience. I’m sure she didn’t want to derail the conversation around the truth of the Armenian genocide or to cause pain to Armenians still searching for justice and recognition. Yet she did both. She’s seeking to make a better politics, but the jury is still out whether she can succeed without alienating people who would otherwise support her.
“Denying the Armenian genocide"
... is that what AOC did?
Huh? No. The only deniers would be the 12 red teamers who voted nay
I guess better 100 years late than never, but the politics surrounding this vote are fairly nauseating.
Omar’s comments on one hand seemed like a principled stance against taking these resolutions as politically convenient statements, but she also refused to acknowledge the genocide in her remarks and made cenk like comments about needing an academic consensus...
It's astounding how countries like Turkey and Japan are so butthurt about their governments' past actions. Just look at Germany. All is largely forgiven now that they owned that . It certainly isn't a big sticking point in it's international relations anymore.
who tf cares about random ass Turkey. Care about what's happening in our own damn country ffs
Like what? This vote took a few minutes.
Are there no Armenians in our own damn country?
Water off a psycopath's back afterall.
You don’t have to care
It's a huge issue. Turkey denying the genocide speaks to their tyranny.
Gravity is just a theory like evolution.
If it was the Jews it would be more easily accepted.
USA is extremely butthurt about its centuries of slavery and racism, and of course its genocide and ongoing maltreatment of Native Americans, actually maltreatment of everybody non-white, non-male, non-Christian.
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