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Apr 26 2021, 10:01 PM April 26 2021, 7:41 PM April 26 2021, 10:01 PM (Bloomberg) -- Turkey’s options for retaliating against Joe Biden’s landmark description of the Ottoman-era mass killing of Armenians as genocide include suspending a key defense deal with the U.S., a person familiar with the matter said. (Bloomberg) -- Turkey’s options for retaliating against Joe Biden’s landmark description of the Ottoman-era mass killing of Armenians as genocide include suspending a key ...

There Are No Genocides, Massacres In History Of Turkish Nation Turkey US relations at risk of taking negative turn after Bidens scandalous statement, says Devlet Bahceli. Criticizing US President Joe Bidens remarks on the events of 1915, Turkeys Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader said on Saturday that the history of the Turkish nation has seen neither genocides nor massacres. Turkish-US relations are at risk of taking a negative t...

Turkish talk of reconciliation angers Armenians on 106th anniversary of genocide Turkey has warned the United States that President Joe Bidens expected characterization of the mass killings of the Ottoman Armenians in 1915 as a genocide will derail Turkish-Armenian reconciliation and further damage US-Turkish ties. Armenians say there is no reconciliation process to speak of. Catholicos Garegin II, the head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, attends a ceremony commemorating the 105th a...

Erdogan furious as his Islamic ambitions stumble in Turkish Cyprus A Turkish Cypriot court ruling that reins back on Quranic courses comes as a poignant message to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Cypriot Turks are unwilling to sign up to his quest to raise “devout generations.”  Turkish Cypriot police stand before a portrait of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the disputal coastal town of Varosha, in Famagusta, Cyprus, Nov. 15, 2020. - Alexis Mitas/Getty Images April...

TURKEY’S opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has called for international solidarity before a trial which has been described as the most important in modern Turkish history opens on Monday. The HDP, whose 55 MPs make it the third-largest force in the Turkish parliament, is under serious pressure, with 108 leading figures, including former co-chairs Figen Yuksekdag and Selahattin Demirtas, facing life imprisonment on a number of charges. They have been indicted on 37 counts of murder ...

Turkish 'kingmaker' edges Erdogan further right

I N THE 1980s, when Basak Demirtas was just five, the police came for her father. Four years ago, her children watched their father being arrested in their turn. “I didn’t think my daughters would have to experience the same thing,” she says. But the lot of the Kurds is slow to change. Listen to this story Enjoy more audio and podcasts oniOSorAndroid. Selahattin Demirtas, her arrested husband, was at the time of his imprisonment the leader of the Peoples’ Democratic Party ( HDP), the st...

Raziye Akkoc, a British-Turkish journalist based in Ankara who reports for Agence France Presse and co-edits a highly regarded weekly newsletter Turkey Recap, speaks to Amberin Zaman about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogans unchallenged grip on politics. For all his recent setbacks — most notably a weakening economy — he is, she says, "still the guy." Early elections are a possibility and his alliance with far right nationalist leader Devlet Bahceli is likely to last. Links:

* Court case to close Demirtas party opened in March * He says Erdogan and his AKP have cast principles aside * Demirtas says turned into a "political hostage" By Daren Butler ISTANBUL, April 5 (Reuters) - Former pro-Kurdish party leader Selahattin Demirtas, jailed since 2016 despite Western calls for his release, said the Turkish opposition should unite against rising oppression and moves to divide them, including a court case to ban his party. Demirtas told Reuters that opponents of President...

All parties which want to fight side-by-side for democracy must come together, says Selahattin Demirtas Reuters April 05, 2021 A supporter of Turkeys main pro-Kurdish Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) holds a mask of their jailed former leader and presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtas during a rally in Ankara, Turkey, June 19, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE ISTANBUL: Former pro-Kurdish party leader Selahattin Demirtas, jailed since 2016 despite Western calls for his release, said the Turkish opp...