American-Turkish Council To Name Armitage As New Chairman

American-Turkish Council to name Armitage as new chairman
Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage is getting ready to take over Chairmanship of the American-Turkish Council from Brent Scowcroft who will soon retire.

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Friday, 30 October 2009 11:46

Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage is getting ready to take over Chairmanship of the American-Turkish Council from Brent Scowcroft who will soon retire.

ATC Board of Directors announced with a statement Thursday that it elected Ambassador Armitage to succeed Scowcroft --who served for 9 years as chairman-- on January 1, 2010.

The American-Turkish Council thanked General Scowcroft for his personal commitment to a strong U.S.-Turkey relationship and particularly for his highly successful leadership of the ATC.

ATC said it was looking forward to working with Armitage to strengthen the business, defense, trade and investment, foreign policy and cultural relations between the United States and Turkey.

Scowcroft and Ambassador Armitage will travel to Turkey November 16-20 for senior-level discussions with Turkey's government, military and business leadership.

The same Richard Armitage who played a role in the outing of Valerie Plame, who was investigating Turkish espionage. Well, he's certainly a friend of Turkey.

Certainly. Remember when he was sent in place of Condoleezza Rice to testify in front of the 9/11 Commission hearings, and the families walked out in disgusted protest?