{"id":16001,"date":"2009-11-12T05:32:26","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T03:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=16001"},"modified":"2023-04-05T10:37:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T07:37:54","slug":"mccain-recognizes-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/11\/12\/mccain-recognizes-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain Recognizes Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"entryMeta\">\n<p id=\"authorsub\">By <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.asbarez.com\/author\/asbarez-staff\/\">Asbarez Staff<\/span> on Nov  10th, 2009<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.asbarez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mccain.jpg\"><\/span>TBILISI (VOA)\u2014Republican US Senator John McCain, in a  recent interview with the Georgian service of Voice of America said he believed  \u201cample documentation\u201d exists proving that \u201cGenocide had been committed against  the Armenian people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that a genocide was committed against Armenians, and I think there  is ample documentation of that,\u201d McCain was quoted as saying. \u201cThe Turkish and  Armenian people and states cannot forget the past. Especially Armenians  cannot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of that,\u201d McCain said, he understood and agreed with Armenia\u2019s  efforts to normalize relations with Turkey on a step-by-step basis. \u201cI support  that view,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are witnessing significant progress in the relations between Turkey and  Armenia,\u201d McCain added. For the first time, parties are making steps towards the  same direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCain dodged the issue during his presidential campaign in 2008, failing to  properly characterize the crime as Genocide. The Arizona Senator is running for  re-election in the 2010 Senate race.<\/p>\n<p>During the US Presidential Campaign, Senator McCain formally asked for the  support of Armenian American voters in an open letter. The Arizona Senator  praised the Armenian American contribution to American society, and Armenia\u2019s  contribution to Coalition operations in Iraq and NATO peacekeeping in Kosovo,  but failed to outline his stands on core Armenian American issues.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, McCain remained silent on Nagorno Karabagh, the Turkish and  Azerbaijani blockades, U.S. aid to Armenia, and the broader issue of  U.S.-Armenia relations. He did, as he has done over the years, echo the Bush  Administration\u2019s practice of employing euphemistic language such as \u201cterrible  tragedy\u201d to avoid mentioning the Armenian Genocide by its proper name.<\/p>\n<p>Senator McCain has, throughout his tenure in the Congress, largely opposed or  was passively indifferent to a broad array of Armenian American issues. In  October 2007, Senator McCain publicly opposed Congressional recognition of the  Armenian Genocide. In 1999, he voted against restricting U.S. aid to Azerbaijan  over its blockades and other offensive uses of force against Armenia and Nagorno  Karabagh. He voted against Senator Bob Dole\u2019s Armenian Genocide Resolution in  1990.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.asbarez.com\/2009\/11\/10\/mccain-recognizes-genocide\/\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"entryMeta\">\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Asbarez Staff on Nov 10th, 2009 TBILISI (VOA)\u2014Republican US Senator John McCain, in a recent interview with the Georgian service of Voice of America said he believed \u201cample documentation\u201d exists proving that \u201cGenocide had been committed against the Armenian people.\u201d \u201cI believe that a genocide was committed against Armenians, and I think there is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":774856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenian-question"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}