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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, the United States Congress and Senate passed a resolution to officially “(1) commemorate the Armenia...

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 Washington's 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 with the President of the United States of America. Erdogan and Trump's male bonding overtures were ...

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 height of the Iraq War, in which the diplomat played an instrumental role during the Bush administrati...