(Ebru News/AP) Turkish Foreign Policy advisor Egemen Bagis, currently in Washington, said "despite our warnings the US Congress wanted to play hardball. We now have to play hardball as well."

Bagis warned there would be consequences for the US- Turkish relationship if the full House voted to approve the resolution.

Egemen Bagis, foreign policy adviser to Turkish Prime Minister said:

There were claims that Turkiye was bluffing and I can assure you - they should ask Canada, they should ask France if we do bluff. We don't. Since the French parliament passed the Armenian resolution in their lower house, French military airplanes have not been given permission to enter Turkish airspace."

Bagis did not rule out the possibility of the passage of the bill on the House floor.

Egemen Bagis, foreign policy adviser to Turkish Prime Minister  said

"I am not saying that might happen. I am saying there might be consequences, there will be consequences, I don't know what those consequences will be. I am not authorised to decide on the consequences, but the Turkish Council of Ministers is going to convene and decide on what the consequences will be."

The Turkish Research Program Director for The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Soner Cagaptay, says the timing of the vote could not be worse.

Soner Cagaptay, Turkish Research Program Director said The Washington Institute for Near East Policy: There is increasing amounts of anti-Americanism in Turkiye, largely due to Iraq war and Iraq war-related issues such as terror attacks conducted by the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which is based in northern Iraq and which is carrying out daily attacks in Turkiye from northern Iraq."

Cagaptay believes if the full house vote goes forward the action "will probably poison US-Turkish relationship."

  Soner Cagaptay, Turkish Research Program Director, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy said:
"I think that this will probably poison U.S.-Turkish relationship, because the Turks, the majority of the Turks, overwhelming percentage of the Turks, do not think that the events of 1915 constitute a genocide, although they will call it with other names and they'll say this is a historic injustice, and what happened is terrible. They will accept that but they are not going to go as far as calling this genocide, and I think this will therefore poison the US-Turkish relationship."