Latest update on the Armenian resolution

All eyes in Turkey are on today’s voting in the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee on a resolution which would recognize the deaths suffered by Armenians in 1915 as “genocide.”

According to the most recent speculation, 22 of the 46-member committee are expected to vote in favor of the resolution, while 17 are anticipated to vote against. Seven of the committee’s Jewish members remain undecided. The aim of the Turkish committee, which is currently in Washington, is to obtain the support of at least some of the members which remain undecided in order to decrease the gap between votes in favor and votes against the resolution.

The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee is scheduled to meet today at 17:00 Turkish standard time. The first item on the agenda is the resolution on the so-called ‘genocide.’ Howard Berman serves as the Committee Chairman and was elected from California, which is well known for having a substantial Armenian lobby. Berman, who will be voting ‘yes,’ is assumed to most definitely be pushing for votes in favor