The BBC describes yet another attempt by the US Congress to put a large caliber hole in the nation's collective foot here. Are these so-called national leaders of America ever going to "get it"? Turks are already torn by the calls of Western secular culture and those of their Islamic "brethern." The EU delays over admission have given the Turks pause when considering who their friends really are. Let's just give them another reason to join up with the Islamists.

A key US congressional committee is to debate whether to classify as genocide the deaths of 1.5 million Ottoman Armenians between 1915 and 1917.
Turkey - which strongly denies Armenian claims that the killings amounted to genocide - has warned of "serious consequences" if the bill is passed.

Ankara has threatened to restrict US access to a key military base used for its operations in Iraq.