PR firm helping squash Congress’s resolution acknowledging Armenian Genocide

The House Foreign Affairs Committee may soon approve a resolution that says, “The Armenian Genocide was conceived and carried out by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923.” Such a resolution would please the Armenian community, and it would seriously irk the nation of Turkey, which would consider it an insult. Murat Mercan, the chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Turkey’s Grand National Assembly, has led a delegation lobbying against the resolution. “The public relations firm Fleis…