Turkey's War on the Truth

Washington Post by Richard Cohen | Oct. 16, 2007 (Opinion)

So contemporary Turkey is entitled to insist that things are not so simple. If you use the word genocide, it suggests the Holocaust -- and that is not what happened in the Ottoman Empire. But Turkey has gone beyond mere quibbling with a word. It has taken issue with the facts and in ways that cannot be condoned. Its most famous writer, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk, was arrested in 2005 for acknowledging the mass killing of Armenians. The ... Full Story »

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by Dave Rosso - Oct. 1, 2008

Richard Cohen has been in this business a long time. This column is informative and helps to give the picture of what is behind the congressional resolution. I only wish someone would explain why Pelosi and company think this resolution -- as Cohen notes, non-binding resolution -- is necessary at this time. Is this a backdoor effort to reduce Turkey's assistance in the Iraq War and, therefore, force a withdrawal of U.S. troops?