During an October 23rd House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing titled “The Betrayal of our Syrian Kurdish Partners: How Will American Foreign Policy and Leadership Recover?“, senior Committee member Rep. Brad Sherman, (D-CA) was blunt in his questioning of Ambassador James Jeffrey, Special Representative for Syria Engagement and Special Envoy to the Global Coalition To Defeat ISIS, and Mr. Matthew Palmer, Deputy Assistant Secretary, State Department Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.

“When I came here 23 years ago, one of the things I thought was morally incumbent upon Congress was to recognize the first genocide of the 20th century - the Armenian Genocide. We were told ‘But Turkey is a great ally of the United States; don’t put that at risk.’ How’s that working out for us?,” asked Rep. Sherman. He continued, noting, “Does the dishonoring of America and the undercutting of our reputation of speaking the truth, was that worth it? Did we get some great help, alliance, love, loyalty from Erdogan?”

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