The same story every year… the US Congress is ready to discuss a genocide resolution and once again Turkey is mobilizing to prevent the passage of the resolution.

There will reportedly be some lobbying in Washington, but Turkish columnists and intellectuals are silent on the issue. Foreign Minister Gül holds meetings on this particular issue but is unable to ask why they inquire into 90-year-old incidents while the killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Iraq goes on. Discussing a genocide resolution in Congress every year is hypocrisy. If you believe Turkey committed genocide, then you pass the resolution right away. If you don't, you simply it shelve it. Instead, this is blackmail.

MELİH AŞIK, MİLLİYET