The Turkish foreign ministry denounced President Joe Biden's decision to classify the mass killings perpetrated against the Armenian people as a genocide, saying it was a setback to U.S.-Turkish relations.
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More generally, the North has a history of nuclear saber-rattling when it feels it is not getting the proper attention from Washington and its allies, and tends to test new American presidents very early in their terms.
“North Korea’s progress with submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) suggests an effort to counter land-based THAAD missile defenses by launching attacks from positions at sea outside the THAAD’s radar field of view,” said the CRS report.
While other regional defenses, including local Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense systems, “could likely still track” North Korean SLBMs, the CRS report emphasized that Pyongyang’s short-range missile capabilities have advanced through waves of tests carried out over the past two years.
Biden’s Expected Recognition of Armenian Genocide Shows Turkey’s Fading Influence, Analysts Say Kristina Jovanovski 04/23/2021
Previous US presidents have avoided using the term ‘genocide’ out of fear of angering key NATO ally
US President Joe Biden’s expected recognition of the Ottoman Empire’s mass killings of Armenians as genocide is a sign of Turkey’s waning influence over Washington, analysts told The Media Line.
Biden is expected to make the recognition on Saturday, Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, according to US reports, which cited unnamed officials.
Turkey’s foreign minister told a local news channel that such a move would harm relations with the United States.
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President Joe Biden’s expected decision to identify Ottoman atrocities against Armenians as a genocide could trigger a new diplomatic crisis with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and worsen U.S.-Turkish disputes on a range of issues.
“Erdogan, who some refer to as a neo-Ottoman leader, is emotionally invested as much in the Ottoman Empire as he is in the Turkish republic,” said former Turkish opposition lawmaker Aykan Erdemir, who leads the Turkey program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “So for him, this is one red line very difficult to cross.”
That impediment deterred previous American presidents from using “genocide” to describe the Armenian ordeal during World War I, when Ottoman officials eager to “Turkify” the embattled empire expelled or killed about 1.5 million Armenian Christians. That hesitation has been fading in recent years, as lawmakers in both parties responsive to appeals from the Armenian diaspora, and Ch