Congress hammers Turkey with sanctions and Armenian genocide votes - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Bryant Harris

Oct 29, 2019

Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) arrives to hear testimony from U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland behind closed-doors, as part of the impeachment inquiry led by the House Intelligence, House Foreign Affairs and House Oversight and Reform Committees in Washington, U.S., October 17, 2019. REUTERS/Erin Scott - RC1A8883F250 — A bipartisan sanctions package against Turkey co-sponsored by New York Democatic Rep. Eliot Engel easily passed Oct. 29. Here, Engel arrives to hear testimony as part of the House impeachment inquiry in Washington, Oct. 17, 2019. — REUTERS/Erin Scott

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Congress moved forward with two bills today in rebuke of Turkey for its incursion into northeastern Syria.

The House easily passed a bipartisan Turkey sanctions package, introduced by Reps. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., and Mike McCaul, R-Texas, 403-16. Shortly before that, House lawmakers also passed a symbolic resolution 405-11 to recognize the World War I era massacre of more than 1 million mostly Christian Armenians as a genocide.

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