Mr Brinkerhoff, Before transcribing an AP press release like this, it would be better to do some research on the subject. This subject is not the simple "human rights" issue that it appears to be; this fact seems to have been lost on the original AP journalist also. The Armenian National Institute is not a "Research Organization". It is a propaganda organization with close ties to Armenian Groups that have a firmly established record of supporting terrorist acts against innocent Turkish Civil Servants in the US and abroad. Associated Press should not be dropping the ball on this one. Objection to this legislation - contrary to the claims of propaganda organizations like the Armenian National Institute - is not coming from the Turkish Government alone. The Turkish people overwhelmingly object to it because many of their ancestors died at the hands of merciless Armenian Revolutionaries who tortured and killed thousands of innocent Moslem Turkish non-combatant civilians; men, women and children - in one of the darkest conflicts of the Great War. You may not know this but they do know. You would know if your ancestors died in the hideous ways that some of these people died. I'm sure you noticed that the original AP article referred to the Armenians as "Christian Armenians". So when you raise the issue of a "Human Rights Element", are you willing to go along with these Armenian Propagandists who would have us count only "Christian Armenian" lives, and not count all those non-combatant Moslem Turkish lives? It's clear that the AP journalist (Stephen Singer) relied wholly on Armenian Sources. These Armenian Propagandists have repeatedly stated all over the internet that there are "no two sides" to this story. Did you just take them for their word without checking whether they might be hiding something from you? Is that what journalists are trained to do?