WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. congressional committee agreed to give Turkey several decommissioned U.S. military ships on Tuesday, but the legislator who sponsored the plan denied it was intended to temper Ankara's anger over U.S. legislation on Armenian genocide.
On a voice vote, the House Foreign Affairs committee approved the package worth $485 million for Turkey, which was infuriated by the same panel's vote on Oct. 10 to label as genocide the 1915 massacres of Armenians by Ottoman Turks.