Kurdish, Armenian and Greek organizations in the United States have jointly petitioned key Congressional leaders, urging that the Obama Administration investigate whether Turkey violated U.S. arms export laws by using American-supplied weaponry in a December 28, 2011, airstrike that killed 35 Kurdish inhabitants along the Turkey-Iraq border.

In a January 10th letter addressed to the bipartisan leaderships of the Congressional committee's overseeing the State Department and Pentagon, the American Hellenic Institute, American Kurdish Information Network, Armenian National Committee of America, Kurdish Human Rights Watch, and Kurdish National Congress of North America called upon the chairpersons and ranking members of these panels to request that the Obama Administration officially investigate this potential violation of U.S. law.