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No stranger to rocky relations with Washington, President Tayyip Erdogan holds his first meeting with President Joe Biden next week overshadowed by bitter disputes and by the new U.S. president's cool tone towards Turkey. Erdogan had to wait three months after Biden's inauguration for their first contact, an awkward phone call in April when Biden said he was recognising the 1915 massacres of Armenians in what is now Turkey as a genocide - infuriating Ankara.

The composition of the new government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis was announced on Monday (4/1) by the new government representative, Christos Tarantilis. The scenarios for the reformation took and gave in the last hours but are no longer scenarios. It is essentially an upgrade to the same role as in the last 1.5 years he was […]

Joint Greek-Turkish poll: Greeks know Turkey better than Turks know Greece Search for: The poll ran simultaneously in Greece and Turkey. Greeks and Turks answered the same questions about how they see themselves, how much they know about each other, where they agree and disagree on issues of bilateral relations, how similar they, how different they are, etc. The research presented by the two scientific bodies was run by MRB in Greece and KONDA in Turkey. The conclusions below are signed by the Head of the Turkey Program of ELIAMEP and Associate Professor at Bilkent University in Turkey, Giann...

The Lawfare Podcast: The State of the U.S.-Turkey Relationship When President Biden entered office, he inherited a bilateral relationship with Turkey that was strained to the limits by the growing independent streak in that country's foreign policy—and one that had been pushed in unfamiliar directions by his predecessor's direct and often unpredictable personal relationship with Turkey's longstanding president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. This past week, the Biden administration made its first major move on the U.S.-Turkey relationship by recognizing the atrocities committed against Armenians by...

Biden - AAP 5370537724001 US President Joe Biden says the 1915 massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide, a historic declaration that infuriated Turkey. The move breaks away from decades of carefully calibrated language from the White House and will likely be celebrated by the Armenian diaspora in the United States. But it comes at a time when Ankara and Washington have deep policy disagreements over a host of issues and is set to further strain frayed ties between the two NATO allies. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Turkey "entirely rejects" the US dec...