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The storm of April 24 that hit Turkey after the US President Joe Biden pronounced “Armenian genocide”, after 1915 wartime massacres under the Ottoman Rule calmed quickly. Preventing the US presidents from using the “G-word” has been named as one of the few basic aims of Turkish foreign policy for years.President Tayyip Erdoğan was expected
It was not surprising that the Cyprus talks in Geneva on 27-29 April did not produce a common ground and the parties agreed to disagree. It would be surprising that the “informal” talks, held under the auspices of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, actually turned into “formal” talks unless Greek Cypriots recognized the political equality of
President Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkey is turning into a country of privileges and double standards, with more and more examples.Let’s start by giving examples that would be enough to talk about the issue.• Covid vaccine example: Health Minister Fahrettin Koca admitted on April 28, that is, two days to go to the covid lockdown that the
Do not expect an outcome from the Cyprus talks that started yesterday. At least do not hope for an outcome that the European Union dreams of. That train was missed when the Greek Cypriot community said “no” to the “reunification” plan presented by the then-U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan at a referendum on 24 April, 2004.
After fulfilling his promise to bring America back into the Paris Agreement, President Biden convened 40 world leaders in a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate on April 22-23, 2021. The leaders talked about how they would increase their efforts and change the current trajectory of global warming to achieve the goals of the U.N. Paris
The Turkish Parliament condemned U.S. President Joe Biden’s April 24 recognization of the “Armenian genocide” on April 27, one day after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s reaction to the decision.Along with Erdoğan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), and its election ally Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and Meral Akşener’s
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund), has announced that newly founded VisCoran İlaç will produce Russian Sputnik V vaccine in Turkey with local partners.The production will start in the upcoming months at several facilities, the company said, one day after Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca announced that Sputnik V will be
Let’s be realistic. The Turkey-U.S. relations can not go the way they used to do after so much damage. Going back is out of question. It is not just because U.S. President Joe Biden named the 1915 killings of Armenians “genocide”. It is not just because that the issue came forward because the Biden administration
U.S. President Joe Biden declared that his country recognizes April 24 as the day of remembrance of the Armenian genocide. Thus, he has become the second U.S. President to call the 1915 Armenian deportation and the massacres that followed the “Armenian genocide”. Earlier in 1981, U.S. President Ronald Reagan had called the 1915 deportation the
U.S. President Joe Biden called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on April 23, a communication awaited since Biden came to power on Jan. 20 amid a pile of problems between the two countries. The two leaders “agreed on working together to expand cooperation based on strategic nature of bilateral relations, mutual interests,” read a statement