Turkey’s Opposition Parties Call for Withdrawing Protocols from Parliament

The adoption of the resolution (H.Res.252) on the Armenian Genocide by the US Congress Committee on Foreign Affairs has evoked a huge wave of fury in Turkey.

While Turkish authorities threaten Washington by saying that the adoption of the resolution could harm US-Turkey “strategic relations,” two large opposition parties have taken advantage of the situation and are calling for the Armenia-Turkey Protocols to be withdrawn from parliament amid concerns that those protocols could be detrimental to Turkey, according to Turkish daily Today’s Zaman.

“As stated by Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, Turkey is not a country that will act under pressure. Under such circumstances, it would be a display of weakness to keep the Protocols in the parliament,” said Onur Öymen, Deputy President of the Democrat-Republican Party of Turkey.

Referring to the necessity of calling the Protocols back from parliament, Oktay Vural, from the opposition Nationalist Movement Party, said the following: “No single parliament can condemn my history.”