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Saturday, 24 April, 2021 - 18:00 US President Joe Biden. (AP) Asharq Al-Awsat US President Joe Biden on Saturday said the 1915 massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide, a historic declaration that infuriated Turkey and is set to further strain frayed ties between the two NATO allies. The largely symbolic move, breaking away from decades of carefully calibrated language from the White House, will likely to ...

By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON, April 24 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Saturday that the 1915 massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide, a historic declaration that infuriated Turkey and further strained frayed ties between the two NATO allies. The largely symbolic move, breaking away from decades of carefully calibrated language from the White House, was welcomed by the Armenian diaspora in the United States, but comes at a time when Ankara and Washington gr...

U.S. President Joe Biden on Saturday said the 1915 massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide, a historic declaration that infuriated Turkey and is set to further strain frayed ties between the two NATO allies. The largely symbolic move, breaking away from decades of carefully calibrated language from the White House, will likely to be celebrated by the Armenian diaspora in the United States, but comes at a time when Ankara and Washington have deep policy disagreements ov...

Erdogan is MENA’s most popular leader, Arab Barometer finds Turkeys promotion of cultural heritage, including through its tourism and entertainment sectors, is one reason for Erdogans popularity. However, the perception of the Ottoman legacy is gradually shifting from one of praise to one of condemnation toward Turkish policies. In this handout picture released by the Turkish presidential press office, Turkeys President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) and invited guests attend Friday prayers ...

The latest visit by top European Union officials to Ankara has shown that the European Union has effectively turned its back to its avowed core principles and values vis-a-vis Erdogan. 

Last Updated On: Apr 08 2021 10:55 Gmt+3 Turkey has spent millions of dollars on sometimes bizarre campaigns to dissuade the American government from calling the murder and expulsion of the vast majority of the Armenians in Anatolia during World War One a genocide. For decades, the United States government has tiptoed around the issue, afraid of the fallout it could precipitate in U.S.-Turkish relations. Ultimately, all this money and effort appears to have been a waste. At the end of 2019, th...

Ankara is furious over a commemorative stamp design featuring a map of Iraqi Kurdistan that includes chunks of Turkey’s Kurdish-dominated southeast provinces.

No more special privileges for Recep Tayyip Erdogan The foreign policy direction favoured by Washingtons new incumbent is putting a strain on relations with Turkey. The two nations look set to clash over a whole host of issues, from human rights concerns to the S 400 Russian missile system, Ronald Meinardus writes in his analysis for Qantara.de Recep Tayyip Erdogan sees himself up there with the giants of global politics, on a level with the likes of Putin, Macron and Merkel – and of course w...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggests the possibility of a newly rewritten Turkish Consitution, sparking debate over his real intentions.

Last Updated On: Dec 15 2020 02:27 Gmt+3 The United States’ ambassador to Turkey David Satterfield has served in Ankara for over 18 months now, but has remained generally silent on human rights. This pattern has persisted as the Turkish government continues its crackdown on protests and other forms of criticism against it in the last year.  Satterfield previously served as the acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near-Eastern Affairs and before that as the ambassador to Baghdad at the he...