Turkey has reacted with anger over the vote from the House Foreign Affairs Committee's vote to approve the Armenian Genocide motion. Rather a lot of anger, in fact.
Turkey reacted angrily today to a House committee vote in Washington on W...

I concur that the Turks are wrong to continue to downplay these events and they are especially wrong to imprison or censor anyone over this issue. However, there are still legitimate and practical reasons to avoid this confrontation right now.

That's true only if one limits one's analysis to practical value, and excludes moral ones.

Sure. But I'd argue there's no real moral value to be gained here, either, given the timeline. As McCain notes, this government isn't culpable for the genocide that occurred 90 years ago.

That they're reluctant to admit to it all these years later for cultural reasons I don't quite understand speaks to something, I suppose. But what does it matter, really, other than to an ethnic minority holding on to ancient grudges?

You are also forgetting the important fact from researching the issue" this would not even be a question or an issue for congress if the government f Turkey hadn't spent the last 10 to 15 years making such a big deal of denying it. They've jailed their academics internally and funded all kinds of denial outside of Turkey.

Seems that Ankara has made this an issue more than the remnants of the genocide survival.

Are Jewish groups who have US involvement in commemoration and recognition of the Holocaust, including taxpayer funding of museums, etc "a narrow interest group"? I don't think so.

If this genocide had been properly and publicity recognized Hitler woudl have thought twice himself!

Nonetheless, I end up agreeing with you because I don't think that acting as a judge of moral values for people of other countries in their actions of nearly a century ago is an essential or even a proper role for our Congress. And by weighing in on a moral issue that is not essential to its actual responsibilities, Congress alienates the government and people of modern-day Turkey precisely when our relationship with them may be vital in preventing a modern-day genocide, one arising from certain worst-case scenarios flowing from the potential partition of Iraq.