TUSIAD On Bill On So-called Armenian Genocide

WASHINGTON D.C. - "The climate is better when compared with two months ago, but this matter has not been put aside yet," said Arzuhan Dogan Yalcindag, the Chairperson of the Executive Board of Turkish Industrialists` & Businessmen`s Association (TUSIAD) when commenting on the bill on the so-called Armenian genocide, submitted to the U.S. Congress.
In a press conference in Washington D.C., after lobbying against the bill, Yalcindag noted that recent initiatives of Turkey have been effective.
Yalcindag said that they met executives of the U.S. Department of State and two think- tank organizations, and told them that this matter should be left to historians.
Qualifying the bill as "a black cloud" on Turkish-American relations, Yalcindag said that these dark clouds should be dispersed in order to enhance Turkish-Armenian relations.
"We have seen that they can understand us and perceive our sensitivities better," she stated.

-ECONOMIC RELATIONS-
On the other hand, Yalcindag recalled that the TUSIAD delegation also had meetings with the executives of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington D.C, and said that the IMF drew attention to inflation in Turkey.
"Reaching the target set in the fight against inflation requires a firm monetary and budgetary policy. We share these views," she noted.