{"id":4532,"date":"2008-09-22T09:07:03","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T06:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=4532"},"modified":"2012-08-04T18:26:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-04T15:26:05","slug":"bush-administrations-ambassadorial-nominee-for-turkey-to-face-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/09\/22\/bush-administrations-ambassadorial-nominee-for-turkey-to-face-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"BUSH ADMINISTRATION’S AMBASSADORIAL NOMINEE FOR TURKEY TO FACE SENATE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deputy national security adviser James F. Jeffrey is getting his
\nreward for long hours of service at the White House: President Bush
\nnominated him last week to be U.S. ambassador to Turkey.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jeffrey has been the deputy chief of mission in Baghdad and the ambassador to
\nAlbania, among a long list of assignments. No word as to when he will
\nbe heading out, but Senate confirmation is not expected to be a
\nproblem since he is a career official.”<\/p>\n

Jeffrey previously served as principal deputy assistant secretary of
\nstate for near eastern affairs, where he held the State Department’s
\nnon-nuclear Iran brief and co-chaired the now defunct Iran-Syria
\nPolicy and Operation Group. I interviewed him for a National Journal
\nstory last year before he moved to the NSC, but the piece is
\nsubscription only and not online.<\/p>\n

Update: A Hill contact writes of the Jeffrey nomination for US
\nambassador to Turkey: “Not surprising. Prior to this Administration,
\nhe was viewed as a Turkey specialist. Served as DCM in Ankara in the
\nlate 1990s.”<\/p>\n

——————–<\/p>\n

September 18, 2008, 7:01 pm<\/p>\n

BUSH ADMINISTRATION’S AMBASSADORIAL NOMINEE FOR TURKEY TO FACE SENATE
\nFOREIGN RELATIONS PANEL<\/p>\n

Ending Denial through Affirmation of the Armenian Genocide, Ending the
\nBlockade are Key Issues to be Addressed<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Washington, DC -The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has
\nscheduled the nomination hearing of Bush’s Ambassadorial Nominee for
\nTurkey, James F. Jeffrey, for Wednesday, September 24, 2008, reported
\nthe Armenian Assembly of America (Assembly).<\/p>\n

“We are hopeful the nomination hearing is not a question and answer
\nsession, which in the past has resulted in equivocating on the
\nhistorical fact of the Armenian Genocide and America’s proud record of
\nhumanitarian intervention,” said Assembly Executive Director Bryan
\nArdouny. “This represents a critical opportunity for the U.S.
\nAmbassador to Turkey to go further than Ambassador Yovanovitch and
\nthis time to squarely affirm the Armenian Genocide. The U.S. record of
\naffirmation is clear as evidenced by the 1951 U.S. filing before the
\nInternational Court of Justice. The Armenian Genocide is an historical
\nfact and Mr. Jeffrey would be well served to follow in the tradition
\nof Ambassador Henry Morgenthau,” continued Ardouny.<\/p>\n

In addition to its campaign of denial and application of article 301
\nof its penal code, which punishes discussion of the Armenian Genocide,
\nfor more than a decade, Turkey, in coordination with Azerbaijan, has
\nblockaded Armenia. The Turkish blockade not only costs Armenia
\nhundreds of millions of dollars, but also undermines the stated U.S.
\npolicy goals of regional cooperation and economic integration in the
\nSouth Caucasus Region.<\/p>\n

While Turkey’s President Gul did accept the bold invitation by
\nArmenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan to visit Armenia on the occasion of
\na soccer game between the two countries earlier this month, more
\nconcrete steps are needed, including establishing working diplomatic
\nrelations and a process of normalization that removes blockades, opens
\nborders, restores economic relations, and strives toward the peaceful
\nresolution of differences and disputes in the region. In fact, the
\nU.S. Administration has repeatedly called upon Turkey “to restore
\neconomic, political and cultural links with Armenia.”<\/p>\n

Jeffrey, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, currently
\nserves as Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security
\nAdvisor at the White House. Prior to this, he served as Principal
\nDeputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs.
\nEarlier in his career, he served as Deputy Chief of Mission in
\nBaghdad, United States Ambassador to Albania, and three other
\nassignments in Turkey. Ambassador Jeffrey received his bachelor’s
\ndegree from Northeastern University and his master’s degree from
\nBoston University.<\/p>\n

Established in 1972, the Armenian Assembly of America is the largest
\nWashington-based nationwide organization promoting public
\nunderstanding and awareness of Armenian issues. The Assembly is a
\n501(c)(3) tax-exempt membership organization.
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Deputy national security adviser James F. Jeffrey is getting his reward for long hours of service at the White House: President Bush nominated him last week to be U.S. ambassador to Turkey. Jeffrey has been the deputy chief of mission in Baghdad and the ambassador to Albania, among a long list of assignments. No word […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":671544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,34],"tags":[666,4035],"class_list":["post-4532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenian-question","category-usa","tag-american-ambassador-to-turkey","tag-asala-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532","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=4532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}